litany

Etymology

Middle English, from Old French letanie, from Ancient Greek λιτανεία (litaneía, “prayer”), from λιτή (litḗ, “prayer, entreaty”).

noun

  1. A ritual liturgical prayer in which a series of prayers recited by a leader are alternated with responses from the congregation.
  2. (figurative) A prolonged or tedious list.
    The litany of packaging innovations introduced to or popularized in the U.S. food market over the last generation seems endless: flexible aseptic packaging, barrier plastics, squeezables, lightweight glass, the retort pouch, […] 1988, Prepared Foods, volume 157, numbers 11-13, page 9
    There are, to be sure, some differences in how the candidates propose addressing this litany of concerns. January 30 2016, “America deserves more from presidential hopefuls”, in The National, retrieved 2016-01-31
    To that end he had sent his men among the common folk of the town, from whom came a litany of tales that led Hawk to a stunningly wrong conclusion. "It seems I may not be good enough at listening," he said regretfully. 2009-07-22, Josie Litton, Come Back to Me: A Novel (Viking & Saxon), Random House Publishing Group, →OCLC, page 102
    [Sam Bankman-Fried] is charged with a litany of fraud and campaign finance law violations, in what US prosecutors are calling “one of the biggest financial frauds in American history”. 2022-12-15, David A Banks, “Crypto was supposed to solve financial corruption. The FTX scandal shows it’s got worse”, in The Guardian

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