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say it: LIT-uh-nee
litany is a noun meaning "any long and tedious address or recital". It carries 2 recorded senses.
any long and tedious address or recital
“the patient recited a litany of complaints”
“a litany of failures”
a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for litany come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.