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Definition of Litanies
1. litany [n] - See also: litany
Lexicographical Neighbors of Litanies
Literary usage of Litanies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum by British Museum Dept. of Manuscripts, Augustus Hughes-Hughes (1906)
"See under sacred Song» (19th cent.). SECTION XII.—litanies AS ... I. litanies OP
THE VIROIN MARY, consisting, unless the contrary is stated, of " Kyrie . ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"In 517 AD the synod of Gerunda provided for two sets of "litanies"; ... A synod
of Paris (573) in its tenth canon ordered litanies to be held for three days ..."
3. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"In another passage Gregory speaks of litanies as already in existence, and their
observance as familiar to the people :— "The return of this ..."
4. The Externals of the Catholic Church: Her Government, Ceremonies, Festivals by John Francis Sullivan (1917)
"How Catholic litanies Began. In the early centuries of our Church's history it
was customary to have prayers with responses, resembling our present litanies ..."
5. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The nature of the recently introduced litanies, which must be assumed to have been
... In the following century the manner of making litanies was to some ..."
6. Divine Worship in England in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries by John David Chambers (1877)
"litanies, BIDDING PRAYERS, PROCESSIONS. ... complete litanies of their own, ...
litanies is.of early antiquity in ..."
7. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1881)
"litanies and Processions. news crossed the Channel to Antwerp, and had grown in
the transit. The great bell of the cathedral was rung for the actual birth. ..."
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