(litanies)
1.
If you describe what someone says as a ~ 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 ~ of complaints against her client.
N-COUNT: usu with supp, oft N of n disapproval
2.
A ~ 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.
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