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With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life?
Adlai Stevenson

Meaning of "litany" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD LITANY

Via Old French from Medieval Latin litanīa from Late Greek litaneia prayer, ultimately from Greek litē entreaty.
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PRONUNCIATION OF LITANY

litany  [ˈlɪtənɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LITANY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Litany is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LITANY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

litany

Litany

Litany, in Christian worship and some forms of Judaic worship, is a form of prayer used in services and processions, and consisting of a number of petitions. The word comes from the Latin litania from Ancient Greek: λιτανεία, which in turn comes from Ancient Greek: λιτή, meaning "supplication". For the "Litany" as used in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, see Ektenia....

Definition of litany in the English dictionary

The definition of litany in the dictionary is a form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations, each followed by an unvarying response. Other definition of litany is any long or tedious speech or recital.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LITANY


Anthony
ˈæntənɪ
Antony
ˈæntənɪ
archaeobotany
ˌɑːkɪəʊˈbɒtənɪ
atony
ˈætənɪ
betony
ˈbɛtənɪ
botany
ˈbɒtənɪ
Brittany
ˈbrɪtənɪ
cottony
ˈkɒtənɪ
dittany
ˈdɪtənɪ
ethnobotany
ˌɛθnəʊˈbɒtənɪ
geobotany
ˌdʒiːəʊˈbɒtənɪ
gluttony
ˈɡlʌtənɪ
homotony
hɒmˈɒtənɪ
kitteny
ˈkɪtənɪ
monotony
məˈnɒtənɪ
neoteny
nɪˈɒtənɪ
palaeobotany
ˌpælɪəʊˈbɒtənɪ
paleobotany
ˌpælɪəʊˈbɒtənɪ
syntony
ˈsɪntənɪ
tetany
ˈtɛtənɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LITANY

lit
lit up
lit.
litai
litanies
litas
LitB
litchi
LitD
lite
liteness
liter
literacy
literacy campaign
literacy hour
literacy project
literacy test
literae humaniores
literal
literal error

WORDS THAT END LIKE LITANY

accompany
Albany
any
archeobotany
astrobotany
Bethany
company
Germany
holding company
insurance company
lactation tetany
many
not having any
palaeoethnobotany
ratany
start-up company
the Litany
the many
tiffany
trading company

Synonyms and antonyms of litany in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «LITANY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «litany» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of litany

Translation of «litany» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LITANY

Find out the translation of litany to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of litany from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «litany» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

一连串反复的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

letanía
570 millions of speakers

English

litany
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

लीटानी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الدعاء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

ектения
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ladainha
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রার্থনা-সঙ্গীত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

litanie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Litany
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Litanei
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

しつこい話
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

장황하게 하는 설명
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Litane
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kinh cầu nguyện
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பாசுரத்தொகுதி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लीटनी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ayin
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

litania
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

litania
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

єктенія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

litanie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

λιτανεία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

litanie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

litania
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

oppramsing
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of litany

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LITANY»

The term «litany» is quite widely used and occupies the 52.403 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LITANY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «litany» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «litany» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about litany

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5 QUOTES WITH «LITANY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word litany.
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Octavia Butler
And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.
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Bret Easton Ellis
I totally relate to Tom Cruise. He's not crazy, it's just the litany of the mid-life crisis.
3
Allen Ginsberg
America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
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Bill Parcells
Even when you're successful, even when you win the game, about an hour after the game, you have a litany of things that you now deal with that are problematic... So the times that you are happy are minute compared to the time that you're dealing with problems.
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Adlai Stevenson
With the supermarket as our temple and the singing commercial as our litany, are we likely to fire the world with an irresistible vision of America's exalted purpose and inspiring way of life?

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LITANY»

Discover the use of litany in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to litany and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Love's Litany: The Writing of Modern Homoerotics
The book focuses on four features of romantic love that are central to both nineteenth-century erotic philosophy and twentieth-century homoeroticism: complementary merger, the idea that "opposites attract"; love-death (Liebestod), the ...
Kevin Kopelson, 1994
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Litany in Flowers: A Marian Devotional for Families
Let this little book help your family grow more like Jesus through his mother.
W. J. Ottenbreit, 2012
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Litany of the Long Sun: The First Half of 'The Book of the ...
In the first two books of the series "The Book of the Long Sun," young priest Patera Silk tries to satisfy the gods living within the Whorl, a starship world sent from Urth to colonize a distant planet, while trying to save his own parish.
Gene Wolfe, 2000
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Feminism and art history: questioning the litany
A long-needed corrective and alternative view of Western art history, these seventeen essays by respected scholars are arranged chronologically and cover every major period from the ancient Egyptian to the present.
Norma Broude, Mary D. Garrard, 1982
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Litany: A Novel
When a wise-cracking street girl meets an itinerant old gardener, sparks begin to fly, fanned by the flames of clashing aesthetics, defenses, and denial into a conflagration of misunderstanding that births an awkward and pragmatic ...
Free Trees Press Staff, Mary Travers, 2011
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The Wideness of God's Mercy: Litanies to Enlarge Our Prayer
This new, updated edition of 150 litanies - responsorial prayers of the people for use in the liturgy and other gatherings - draws from a wealth of Anglican and ecumenical material from all parts of the world, and is suitable for most ...
Jeffery W. Rowthorn, W. Alfred Tisdale, Jr., 2007
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A manual of the Litany. By S.W.
What does the word Litany mean ? 2. What sort of prayer do we now call a Litany ? 3. How ancient are Litanies thought to be ? 4. When do we hear of them in the Eastern Church ? 5. When in the Western ? 6. What was St. Gregory's Litany ...
S. W, 1865
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Caribbean Panorama: An Anthology from and about the ...
LITANY. by George Campbell George Campbell was one of the first poets from the Caribbean to publish a collection of his work, which was to prove very influential. 1992 Nobel prize winner Derek Walcott writes in Another Life of the impact ...
Kathleen Kelley Ferracane, 1999
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The Litany in the Afternoon
(4.) Another advantage of this arrangement is, that it could not involve us in a difficulty. The Litany would easily resolve itself into its original position the moment a clamour was raised, if it were thought an innovation by the respectable part of ...
‎1856
10
An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the ...
A. Wand. Made. of. Words: The. Litany. Poem. NANCY. WILLARD. Let me start by explaining what the litany, as a poetic form, is not. It is not a liturgical prayer in which phrases are sung or chanted by a leader alternating with phrases sung or  ...
Annie Finch, Kathrine Varnes, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LITANY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term litany is used in the context of the following news items.
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Nuns Intensify Fight Over Sale of Convent to Katy Perry - The New …
After a litany of objections to the archdiocese's attempt to assert control over the nuns' civil nonprofit, Sister Jean-Marie's letter concluded: “All of ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
2
'True Detective' is not a good show - Business Insider
Existing as a counterpoint to all this is Ani Bezzerides (Rachel McAdams), who exhibits a litany of traditionally masculine traits: She drinks and ... «Business Insider, Jul 15»
3
ISIS: The Latest Bean Counter's Folly | John B. Alexander, Ph.D.
Thus overreliance on myopic analytic models that support wishful outcomes have brought a litany of historical failures, the emergence of ISIS in ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
4
Donald Trump Joins a Growing List of Privileged Self Destructors …
That unfiltered comment—like many others in his litany of shoot first, answer questions later accusations—reveals more than just bad judgment. «The Fiscal Times, Jul 15»
5
U.S. Embassy in Cuba Reopens After More Than 50 Years - The …
A litany of questions have yet to be answered, including: Will the American trade embargo that has crippled Cuba's economy be lifted, and if so, ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
6
'Illegal Activity' Fine Print Leaves Some Insured, but Uncovered …
The incident joins a disturbing litany of cases in which black men have been shot by white men in law-enforcement capacities. Mr. Bird's family ... «New York Times, Jul 15»
7
Q&A guest Alan Jones condemns Shenhua coal mine in battle of stats
Consulting his pile of papers, Jones rattled off a litany of charges racked up by Labor frontbencher Tony Burke, and various speakers of the ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
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BREKKIE WRAP: Stephen Hawking leads search for extraterrestrial …
SHE'S got a litany of BFFs, but Taylor Swift has added a new mate to the mix, with Aussie transgender model Andreja Pejic joining the star on ... «NEWS.com.au, Jul 15»
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Why China Wants a Jeb-vs.-Hillary Race - Aaron Mak - POLITICO …
A litany of articles from China's government-run print news outlets illustrates this trend. When Xinhua, China's official news agency, reported on ... «Politico, Jul 15»
10
Prosecutors try to pick Tampa jury for Dontae Morris' third murder …
Morris' litany of murder charges, and the long search for him after he killed the two police officers during a traffic stop, made him notorious ... «TBO.com, Jul 15»

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