litany
noun
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.
litanies
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pluralof litany.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Because these kinds of litanies are not rare, I get why actor, writer, and producer Issa Rae, the woman behind "Insecure" and "Rap Sh!t," is over it.
From Salon ● Jun. 7, 2023
As was also the case with Tom Stoppard’s Broadway hit “Leopoldstadt,” I sometimes felt in “Otto Frank” that the names of the camps and the litanies of loss were being dragooned into dramatic service illegitimately.
From New York Times ● Jan. 18, 2023
And so the Oprah Winfrey-produced, Reginald Hudlin-directed documentary “Sidney” ticks off litanies of both aesthetic and cultural achievements, without ever feeling obligatory.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022
The emails that straggle through are litanies of the wreckage he’s seeing every day, interspersed with guilt and remorse at their separation.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2021
Whether there was any truth to Boori Ma’s litanies no one could be sure.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
