litanyn.

Brit.

/ˈlɪtəni/,

/ˈlɪtn̩i/, U.S.

/ˈlɪtn̩i/

Forms: Middle English letanye, Middle English–1600s letanie, (Middle English letayne), Middle English–1600s letany, (Middle English letony, leteny, latanie, 1500s latenie, latony, latyny, 1600s latiny), 1500s– litany.

Etymology: < medieval Latin litanīa, letanīa (whence Old French letanie, French litanie, Provençal letania, Spanish letania, Portuguese ladainha, Italian litania, letania, letana), < Greek λιτανεία prayer, entreaty, < λιτανεύειν to pray, entreat, < λιτανός suppliant, < λίτη supplication, related to λίτεσθαι, λίσσεσθαι to supplicate.

a. Christian Church. An appointed form of public prayer, usually of a penitential character, consisting of a series of supplications, deprecations, or intercessions in which the clergy lead and the people respond, the same formula of response being repeated for several successive clauses. A litany may be used either as part of a service or by itself, in the latter case often in procession. Greater and Lesser Litany: see quot. 1885.The name of ‘the Lesser Litany’ has also been given to the petitions Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison, and ‘Lord, have mercy upon us, Christ, have mercy upon us, Lord, have mercy upon us’.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [noun] > supplicatory

litany?c1225

supplication?c1400

a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 3 May 72 Cristes folc mærsiað letanias.]

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 22 Seoue salmes seggeð sittinde oðer cneolinde wið þe letanie.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 8393 Clerkes..on god gonne crye Wepinde wiþ procession & songe þe letanye.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 375 He schal be housled and i-lad to þe dore of purgatorie wiþ processioun and letanye.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 299 Aboute þat tyme Seint Mammertus..ordeyned solempne letanyes þat beeþ i-cleped þe Rogaciouns,..and beeþ i-cleped þe lasse letayne for difference of þe more letayne þat Gregorye ordeynede to be seide a Seynt Markes day.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. 21^v/2 The letanyes ben don twyes in the yere... Saynt markes day..is called the more letanye. And the second..the lasse letanye. And letanye is as moche to saye as supplicacion or prayer.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. 753 Whyle he was anoyntynge, the clergy sange the latyny.

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 63 The sevin psalmis..to sing and reid, With latony, placebo, and the creid.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. i. 411/2 In their publike Processions, and Letanies of the Church, this Petition was added, From the rage of the Normans, Good Lord deliuer vs.

1704 R. Nelson Compan. Festivals & Fasts ii. vi. 416 These earnest Supplications for the Mercy of God..were called Litanies.

1866 J. H. Blunt Annot. Bk. Common Prayer 22 (note) The lesser Litany is an ancient and Catholic prefix to the Lords Prayer.

1874 C. M. Yonge Cameos cxix, in Monthly Packet Feb. 115 The University of Paris commanded that there should be public litanies.

1883 R. W. Dixon Mano ii. viii. 95 Through the streets the priests and monks gan pace In their procession, chanting litanies.

1885 Catholic Dict. (ed. 2) 519/2 The Litany of the Saints is chanted on the feast of St. Mark (April 25), and on the three Rogation days; on the former occasion it is called the Greater (litaniæ majores), and on the Rogation days the Lesser (litaniæ minores).

b. the Litany: that form of ‘general supplication’ appointed for use in the Book of Common Prayer, of similar form to those mentioned above, and consisting of petitions to the Trinity, deprecations, and obsecrations, with concluding suffrages and prayers.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [noun] > supplicatory > appointed for use in Book of Common Prayer

the Litany1544

c1420–30 Primer (1895) 47 And here bigynneþ þe letanie.]

1544 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 726 Paid to the chaunter of Westmynster for pryking the new Latyny..in prykeson.

1544 Exhort. vnto Prayer sig. A.i (title) A Letanie with suffrages.

1548 Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI c. 1 §6 The Mattens, Evensonge, Letanye, and all other prayers.

1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 244 in Justice Vindicated To have..the Lords Prayer, Creede and Letany in the English tongue.

1679–1714 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation (1715) III. i. 164 In the Litany they did still [anno 1545] Invocate the Blessed Virgin..and all the Blessed Company of Heaven to pray for them.

a1695 A. Wood Life (1848) 117 Which being all done..the fellowes went to the letany.

1885 J. Ruskin Pleasures Eng. 136 Our petition in the Litany, against sudden death.

2. transferred. A form of supplication (e.g. in non-Christian worship) resembling a litany; also, a continuous repetition or long enumeration resembling those of litanies.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > request > [noun] > formal request or petition > of particular type

litanyc1400

application1692

address1700

society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [noun] > supplicatory > in non-Christian worship

litanyc1400

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > repetition > continuous repetition or enumeration

litany1658

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xvi. 177 Thei putten his name in hire Letanyes, as a Seynt.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vii. xxviii. 268 Not onely the Tribes should go in solemne procession with their praiers and Letanies, but also [etc.].

1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §10 Lord deliver me from my self, is a part of my Letany .

1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar Ep. Ded. 10 I shall think my returne full of reward if you shall..put me into your Letanies.

1658 tr. S. de Cyrano de Bergerac Satyrical Characters ix. 28 The passengers Letanies are mixt with the mariner's blasphemies.

a1822 P. B. Shelley in Relics (1862) 36 Hear them mumble Their litany of curses.

1834 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Seine 168 Beggars throng the road, chanting their ceaseless litanies.

1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. viii. 185 So did these reprobates maintain a perpetual litany of ribaldry.

3. The form of a parody of the Litany has often been employed as a vehicle for scurrilous political satire.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > other non-story prose > [noun] > vehicle for political satire

litany1659

1659 (title) A Free-Parliament-Letany.

1680 (title) The Loyal Subjects Litany.

1682 (title) The Cavalier's Litany.

1817 (title) The political litany diligently revised. To be said or sung, until the appointed change come, throughout the Dominion of England and Wales, and the town of Berwick upon Tweed.

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 236/2 One intelligent man told me,..properly to work a political litany, which referred to ecclesiastical matters, he ‘made himself up’, as well as limited means would permit, as a bishop.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

litany-book n.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > music books > [noun] > litany book

litany-book?a1500

society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] > music book > church music > litany book

litany-book?a1500

?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 755/9 A letenyboke, Hec letenia.

litany-chant n.

ΚΠ

1844 N. Wiseman Minor Rites in Ess. (1853) I. 511 It blesses the fields with its solemn procession and litany-chant.

litany-prayer n.

ΚΠ

1894 E. Bishop in Dublin Rev. Oct. 452 The fact that these Litany-prayers are found in the Sundays of Lent is interesting.

C2.

litany-desk n.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > furniture > table > [noun] > at which litany is recited

faldstoola1626

prie-dieu1687

oratory1697

litany-desk1725

litany-stool1845

1725 T. Thomas in Portland Papers VI. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) 130 A large stone, at the East End of the Choir..(on part of which stands the Litany desk).

1845 Ecclesiologist 4 162 Let them..introduce the use of a Litany-desk.

litany-stool n. a low movable prayer-desk at which a minister kneels while reciting the litany; = faldstool n. 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > artefacts > furniture > table > [noun] > at which litany is recited

faldstoola1626

prie-dieu1687

oratory1697

litany-desk1725

litany-stool1845

1845 Ecclesiologist 4 147 The nave will contain both lettern and litany-stool.

litany-wise adv. after the manner of a litany.

ΚΠ

1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Divine Offices iv. 102 Which versicle was used Litany~wise (that is, returned by the people) in the service of the Temple.

Derivatives

ˈlitanying n. recitation of litanies.Apparently only in the works of Thomas Carlyle.

ΚΠ

1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iv. vii. 391 Pause in thy mass-chantings, in thy litanyings, and Calmuck prayings by machinery.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iii. v. 239 Popish litanyings..and idolatrous stage-performances.

Draft additions 1997

A succession or catalogue of phenomena, esp. unfortunate events. Cf. chapter n. Phrases 4.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > circumstance or occurrence > series of

litany1961

the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [noun] > a series or succession

row?1510

processiona1564

sequencea1575

succession1579

pomp1595

suite1597

rosary1604

sequel1615

series1618

rope1621

success1632

concatenation1652

sorites1664

string1713

chain1791

course1828

serie1840

daisy chain1856

nexus1858

catena1862

litany1961

1961 M. Spark Curtain Blown by Breeze in Voices at Play 72 I lay on my bed listening to a litany of tennis noises from where my two brothers played.

1963 P. Larkin Sel. Lett. (1992) 357 I ought to have written at once..and can only repeat the usual litany of excuses to say why I didn't.

1978 J. Carroll Mortal Friends iii. ii. 269 She had taken her place by accident..among Brady's shuffling litany of ghosts.

1985 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 10 Oct. b3/4 Mercantile has been..looking around for a merger partner..after a litany of troubles, including serious exposure to bad loans.

1987 Times 6 Feb. 9/7 Many operations were a litany of disasters.

1990 Guardian 28 May 20/7 The Bank Holiday weekend..brought the usual litany of traffic jams and queues at air and sea ports.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	litany
释义	litanyn. Brit. /ˈlɪtəni/, /ˈlɪtn̩i/, U.S. /ˈlɪtn̩i/ Forms: Middle English letanye, Middle English–1600s letanie, (Middle English letayne), Middle English–1600s letany, (Middle English letony, leteny, latanie, 1500s latenie, latony, latyny, 1600s latiny), 1500s– litany. Etymology: < medieval Latin litanīa, letanīa (whence Old French letanie, French litanie, Provençal letania, Spanish letania, Portuguese ladainha, Italian litania, letania, letana), < Greek λιτανεία prayer, entreaty, < λιτανεύειν to pray, entreat, < λιτανός suppliant, < λίτη supplication, related to λίτεσθαι, λίσσεσθαι to supplicate. 1. a. Christian Church. An appointed form of public prayer, usually of a penitential character, consisting of a series of supplications, deprecations, or intercessions in which the clergy lead and the people respond, the same formula of response being repeated for several successive clauses. A litany may be used either as part of a service or by itself, in the latter case often in procession. Greater and Lesser Litany: see quot. 1885.The name of ‘the Lesser Litany’ has also been given to the petitions Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison, and ‘Lord, have mercy upon us, Christ, have mercy upon us, Lord, have mercy upon us’. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [noun] > supplicatory litany?c1225 supplication?c1400 a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 3 May 72 Cristes folc mærsiað letanias.] ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 22 Seoue salmes seggeð sittinde oðer cneolinde wið þe letanie. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 8393 Clerkes..on god gonne crye Wepinde wiþ procession & songe þe letanye. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 375 He schal be housled and i-lad to þe dore of purgatorie wiþ processioun and letanye. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 299 Aboute þat tyme Seint Mammertus..ordeyned solempne letanyes þat beeþ i-cleped þe Rogaciouns,..and beeþ i-cleped þe lasse letayne for difference of þe more letayne þat Gregorye ordeynede to be seide a Seynt Markes day. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. 21^v/2 The letanyes ben don twyes in the yere... Saynt markes day..is called the more letanye. And the second..the lasse letanye. And letanye is as moche to saye as supplicacion or prayer. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. 753 Whyle he was anoyntynge, the clergy sange the latyny. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 63 The sevin psalmis..to sing and reid, With latony, placebo, and the creid. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. i. 411/2 In their publike Processions, and Letanies of the Church, this Petition was added, From the rage of the Normans, Good Lord deliuer vs. 1704 R. Nelson Compan. Festivals & Fasts ii. vi. 416 These earnest Supplications for the Mercy of God..were called Litanies. 1866 J. H. Blunt Annot. Bk. Common Prayer 22 (note) The lesser Litany is an ancient and Catholic prefix to the Lords Prayer. 1874 C. M. Yonge Cameos cxix, in Monthly Packet Feb. 115 The University of Paris commanded that there should be public litanies. 1883 R. W. Dixon Mano ii. viii. 95 Through the streets the priests and monks gan pace In their procession, chanting litanies. 1885 Catholic Dict. (ed. 2) 519/2 The Litany of the Saints is chanted on the feast of St. Mark (April 25), and on the three Rogation days; on the former occasion it is called the Greater (litaniæ majores), and on the Rogation days the Lesser (litaniæ minores). b. the Litany: that form of ‘general supplication’ appointed for use in the Book of Common Prayer, of similar form to those mentioned above, and consisting of petitions to the Trinity, deprecations, and obsecrations, with concluding suffrages and prayers. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [noun] > supplicatory > appointed for use in Book of Common Prayer the Litany1544 c1420–30 Primer (1895) 47 And here bigynneþ þe letanie.] 1544 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1901) III. 726 Paid to the chaunter of Westmynster for pryking the new Latyny..in prykeson. 1544 Exhort. vnto Prayer sig. A.i (title) A Letanie with suffrages. 1548 Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI c. 1 §6 The Mattens, Evensonge, Letanye, and all other prayers. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 244 in Justice Vindicated To have..the Lords Prayer, Creede and Letany in the English tongue. 1679–1714 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation (1715) III. i. 164 In the Litany they did still [anno 1545] Invocate the Blessed Virgin..and all the Blessed Company of Heaven to pray for them. a1695 A. Wood Life (1848) 117 Which being all done..the fellowes went to the letany. 1885 J. Ruskin Pleasures Eng. 136 Our petition in the Litany, against sudden death. 2. transferred. A form of supplication (e.g. in non-Christian worship) resembling a litany; also, a continuous repetition or long enumeration resembling those of litanies. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > request > [noun] > formal request or petition > of particular type litanyc1400 application1692 address1700 society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [noun] > supplicatory > in non-Christian worship litanyc1400 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > repetition > continuous repetition or enumeration litany1658 c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xvi. 177 Thei putten his name in hire Letanyes, as a Seynt. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. vii. xxviii. 268 Not onely the Tribes should go in solemne procession with their praiers and Letanies, but also [etc.]. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §10 Lord deliver me from my self, is a part of my Letany . View more context for this quotation 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar Ep. Ded. 10 I shall think my returne full of reward if you shall..put me into your Letanies. 1658 tr. S. de Cyrano de Bergerac Satyrical Characters ix. 28 The passengers Letanies are mixt with the mariner's blasphemies. a1822 P. B. Shelley in Relics (1862) 36 Hear them mumble Their litany of curses. 1834 L. Ritchie Wanderings by Seine 168 Beggars throng the road, chanting their ceaseless litanies. 1881 W. Besant & J. Rice Chaplain of Fleet I. viii. 185 So did these reprobates maintain a perpetual litany of ribaldry. 3. The form of a parody of the Litany has often been employed as a vehicle for scurrilous political satire. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > other non-story prose > [noun] > vehicle for political satire litany1659 1659 (title) A Free-Parliament-Letany. 1680 (title) The Loyal Subjects Litany. 1682 (title) The Cavalier's Litany. 1817 (title) The political litany diligently revised. To be said or sung, until the appointed change come, throughout the Dominion of England and Wales, and the town of Berwick upon Tweed. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 236/2 One intelligent man told me,..properly to work a political litany, which referred to ecclesiastical matters, he ‘made himself up’, as well as limited means would permit, as a bishop. Compounds C1. General attributive. litany-book n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > music books > [noun] > litany book litany-book?a1500 society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] > music book > church music > litany book litany-book?a1500 ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 755/9 A letenyboke, Hec letenia. litany-chant n. ΚΠ 1844 N. Wiseman Minor Rites in Ess. (1853) I. 511 It blesses the fields with its solemn procession and litany-chant. litany-prayer n. ΚΠ 1894 E. Bishop in Dublin Rev. Oct. 452 The fact that these Litany-prayers are found in the Sundays of Lent is interesting. C2. litany-desk n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > table > [noun] > at which litany is recited faldstoola1626 prie-dieu1687 oratory1697 litany-desk1725 litany-stool1845 1725 T. Thomas in Portland Papers VI. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) 130 A large stone, at the East End of the Choir..(on part of which stands the Litany desk). 1845 Ecclesiologist 4 162 Let them..introduce the use of a Litany-desk. litany-stool n. a low movable prayer-desk at which a minister kneels while reciting the litany; = faldstool n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > table > [noun] > at which litany is recited faldstoola1626 prie-dieu1687 oratory1697 litany-desk1725 litany-stool1845 1845 Ecclesiologist 4 147 The nave will contain both lettern and litany-stool. litany-wise adv. after the manner of a litany. ΚΠ 1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Divine Offices iv. 102 Which versicle was used Litany~wise (that is, returned by the people) in the service of the Temple. Derivatives ˈlitanying n. recitation of litanies.Apparently only in the works of Thomas Carlyle. ΚΠ 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iv. vii. 391 Pause in thy mass-chantings, in thy litanyings, and Calmuck prayings by machinery. 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iii. v. 239 Popish litanyings..and idolatrous stage-performances. Draft additions 1997 A succession or catalogue of phenomena, esp. unfortunate events. Cf. chapter n. Phrases 4. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > circumstance or occurrence > series of litany1961 the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > [noun] > a series or succession row?1510 processiona1564 sequencea1575 succession1579 pomp1595 suite1597 rosary1604 sequel1615 series1618 rope1621 success1632 concatenation1652 sorites1664 string1713 chain1791 course1828 serie1840 daisy chain1856 nexus1858 catena1862 litany1961 1961 M. Spark Curtain Blown by Breeze in Voices at Play 72 I lay on my bed listening to a litany of tennis noises from where my two brothers played. 1963 P. Larkin Sel. Lett. (1992) 357 I ought to have written at once..and can only repeat the usual litany of excuses to say why I didn't. 1978 J. Carroll Mortal Friends iii. ii. 269 She had taken her place by accident..among Brady's shuffling litany of ghosts. 1985 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 10 Oct. b3/4 Mercantile has been..looking around for a merger partner..after a litany of troubles, including serious exposure to bad loans. 1987 Times 6 Feb. 9/7 Many operations were a litany of disasters. 1990 Guardian 28 May 20/7 The Bank Holiday weekend..brought the usual litany of traffic jams and queues at air and sea ports. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?c1225
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