| 单词 | litany |
| 释义 | litany /lit"n ee/, n. , pl. litanies. 1. a ceremonial or liturgical form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations or supplications with responses that are the same for a number in succession. 2. the Litany, the supplication in this form in the Book of Common Prayer. 3. a recitation or recital that resembles a litany. 4. a prolonged or tedious account: We heard the whole litany of their complaints. [bef. 900; < LL litania < LGk litaneía litany, Gk: an entreating, equiv. to litan- (s. of litaínein, var. of LITANEEIN to pray) + -eia -Y3; r. ME letanie, OE letania < ML, LL, as above] Syn. 4. list, catalog, enumeration. |
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