Results for litany
Definitions of litany:
part of speech: noun
A praying: a form of supplication in public worship.
part of speech: noun
A solemn form of supplication used in public worship.
part of speech: noun
Usage examples for litany:
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And when the train of the prince rolled into the yard of the Palace of the Litany it trembled upon St. George's lips to ask whether the formalities of the court would permit him that day to scale the skies and call upon the royal household.
"Romance Island", Zona Gale -
After the Lord's Prayer, in which Ellen had feebly joined, Mr. Lacy and the two women, who knelt opposite to him, repeated alternately the impressive sentences of the Litany which immediately follows it.
"Ellen Middleton--A Tale", Georgiana Fullerton -
The old custom had been to have, on Sundays and holy days, prayers at six, and the Litany at nine, followed after a few minutes' interval by the Communion service.
"The English Church in the Eighteenth Century", Charles J. Abbey and John H. Overton -
Must not the ordinary man believe that if, as his spiritual guides impress upon him, he never fails in a " strict observance of the holy Sabbath and a regular attendance on Divine Service,"- in other words, if he invariably whiles away his time on a Sunday, and never fails to sit two hours in church to listen to the same Litany for the thousandth time, and to babble it with the rest a tempo, he may reckon on indulgence in here and there little sins which he at times allows himself?
"Essays of Schopenhauer", Arthur Schopenhauer