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.

the Litany, the supplication in this form in the Book of Common Prayer.

a recitation or recital that resembles a litany.

a prolonged or tedious account

We heard the whole litany of their complaints.

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account , catalogue , enumeration , invocation , list , petition , prayer , recitation , refrain , repetition , supplication , talenotes:a litany is a series of prayers; a liturgy is the canon of a religious service , collect , orison , rogation , chant , recital , rite , service