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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: litanies (0.01691 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to litanies.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: litany 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
English → English (gcide) Definition: Litanies 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]

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