- litany - any long and tedious address or recital; "the patient recited a litany of complaints"; "a litany of failures"
--1 is a kind of address, speech
- Litany - a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation
--2 is a kind of prayer
--2 is a part of Book of Common Prayer - Litany - a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation