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
disapproval If you describe what someone says as a litany of things, you mean that you have heard it many times before, and you think it is boring or insincere. She remained in the doorway, listening to his litany of complaints against her client
A solemn form of supplication for God's mercy, composed of short responsive prayers The traditional Anglican Litany (page 54 in the 1928 BCP) is almost recognizable in the words of The Great Litany (BCP page 148) in the 1979 Prayer Book
a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation any long and tedious address or recital; "the patient recited a litany of complaints"; "a litany of failures