Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - litany

(litanies) 1. If you describe what someone says as a litany of things, you mean that you have heard it many times before, and you think it is boring or insincere. She remained in the doorway, listening to his litany of complaints against her client. N-COUNT: usu with supp, oft N of n c darkgreen]disapproval 2. A litany is part of a church service in which the priest says a set group of words and the people reply, also using a set group of words. N-COUNT