litany

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Chrono Trigger are best described as a litany of nit-picks.

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  1. noun A liturgical prayer consisting of a series of petitions recited by a leader alternating with fixed responses by the congregation.
  2. noun A repetitive or incantatory recital: "the litany of layoffs in recent months by corporate giants” (Sylvia Nasar).

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  • The words repeated in a litany, as if expecting some response, but Reggie was too drained to answer. —  Mary Jo Putney - The Rake.htm
  • A blue New York Mets baseball cap spotted with blood on a living room floor, the scorched family cat in the yard of the burnt house These are what you remember The Wooden Sea is in many ways an extended litany -- liturgy, almost --of what Frannie McCabe remembers. —  F ;SF; - vol 100 issue 06 - June 2001
  • And Justin Connor, that dirty, no-good, thieving wretch who stole my daddy's gold mine The familiar litany was a prayer all its own. —  Teresa Medeiros - Once An Angel
  • Chrono Trigger are best described as a litany of nit-picks. —  Latest from PALGN
  • Followed by wot can only be described as a litany of lies, obfuscations, and smears. —  Drudge Retort
 

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chant ·  vigil ·  reiteration ·  wail ·  chorus ·  anthem ·  catalogue ·  recurrence ·  drudgery ·  recitation ·  undertone ·  hymn
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  1. Middle English letanie, from Old French, from Medieval Latin letanīa, from Late Latin litanīa, from Late Greek litaneia, from Greek, entreaty, from litaneuein, to entreat, from litanos, entreating, from litē, supplication.

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  1. Early modern English litanie, from Middle English letanie, from Old French letanie, French litanie = Provencal letania = Spanish letania = Portuguese ladainha = Italian litania, letania, letana (in F., etc., usually in plural), from Late Latin litania, from Greek λιτανεία, an entreating, a litany, from λιταίνειν, rare form of λιτανεύειν, pray, from λίτεσθαι, λίσσ, σ1εσθαι, beg, pray; cf. λιτή, prayer: see lite.
 

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