litany

English Thesaurus

1. a prayer consisting of a series of invocations by the priest with responses from the congregation (noun.communication)

instance hypernym	:	prayer,
definition	:	a fixed text used in praying (noun.communication)

part meronym	:	book of common prayer,
definition	:	the Anglican service book of the Church of England; has had several revisions since the Reformation and is widely admired for the dignity and beauty of its language (noun.communication)

2. any long and tedious address or recital (noun.communication)

hypernym	:	address, speech,
definition	:	the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience (noun.communication)