单词 | the litany |
释义 | > as lemmasthe Litany 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. < as lemmas |
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