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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. any long and tedious address or recital;
- Example: "the patient recited a litany of complaints"
- Example: "a litany of failures"

2. a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Litany \Lit"a*ny\ (l[i^]t"[.a]*n[y^]), n.; pl. Litanies
   (l[i^]t"[.a]*n[i^]z). [OE. letanie, OF. letanie, F. litanie,
   L. litania, Gr. litanei`a, fr. litaney`ein to pray, akin to
   li`tesqai, li`ssesqai, to pray, lith` prayer.]
   A solemn form of supplication in the public worship of
   various churches, in which the clergy and congregation join,
   the former leading and the latter responding in alternate
   sentences. It is usually of a penitential character.
   [1913 Webster]

         Supplications . . . for the appeasing of God's wrath
         were of the Greek church termed litanies, and rogations
         of the Latin.                            --Hooker.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

litany
    n 1: any long and tedious address or recital; "the patient
         recited a litany of complaints"; "a litany of failures"
    2: a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest
       with responses from the congregation


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

92 Moby Thesaurus words for "litany":
   Angelus, Ave, Ave Maria, Hail Mary, Kyrie Eleison, Paternoster,
   Sefer Torah, Torah, Torah scroll, Virginal, agape, aid prayer,
   appeal, asperges, aspersion, auricular confession, bar mitzvah,
   bas mitzvah, beadroll, beads, beseechment, bidding prayer,
   breviary, canon, catalogue, cataloguing, celebration, chaplet,
   church book, circumcision, collect, communion, confession,
   confirmation, contemplation, devotions, entreaty, enumeration,
   euchologion, euchology, farse, formulary, grace, high celebration,
   impetration, imploration, incense, intercession, inventory,
   inventorying, invocation, invocation of saints, kiss of peace,
   lectionary, lesser litany, list, listing, love feast, lustration,
   machzor, manual, meditation, missal, obsecration, obtestation,
   ordinal, orison, pax, petition, pontifical, prayer, prayer book,
   prayer wheel, processional, recital, recitation,
   reciting the rosary, ritual, rituale, rogation, rosary, rubric,
   service book, siddur, silent prayer, suit, supplication,
   telling of beads, thanks, thanksgiving, the confessional,
   the confessionary