Litany

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–noun 

1. a ceremonial or liturgical form of prayer consisting of a series of invocations or supplications with responses that are the same for a number in succession.

2. the Litany, the supplication in this form in the Book of Common Prayer.

3. a recitation or recital that resembles a litany.

4. a prolonged or tedious account: We heard the [whole] litany of their complaints.  





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litany, liturgy (nn.) 

 

A litany is a prayer containing various invocations or, in its more generalized sense, any long, repetitive recitation or list, often pejorative because boring to hear, as in The old man whined out a well-rehearsed litany of grievances against his family. 



A liturgy, sometimes capitalized, especially in reference to the Christian Eucharist, is a religious rite or a collection of them for use in public worship.





　

Even before her departure, Caden has begun suffering from a litany of physical maladies as well as the realization that his direction of others’ plays doesn’t allow him room for personal expression. 



At least Adele’s trip would seem to open the door to Caden’s consummation of a strong attraction between him and comely box office worker Hazel (a curly-red-haired Samantha Morton), who, in one early indication of oddities to come, purchases and soon occupies a house that’s burning and full of smoke.





liturgical

thaumaturgical

dramaturgy

sorcery

If John’s illness resembles the [curse] put on Sleeping Beauty by an evil [sorcerer], 

amulet

talisman

It doesn't remake Shakespeare so much as [evoke] him as a talisman

mascot

The mascot of Ridgemont [High] is the wolf, which is the same mascot of Van Nuys High School, where most of the school scenes were shot.



incantation

The attractions of impromptu ritual are [a] constant in Me and You, in the incantatory [recitations] Christine records for her videos

repetitious wordiness to conceal a lack of content, obfuscation

Her prose too often resorts to [incantation].  

Veda

mantra

Lynch’s frequently updated Twitter stream flows like a stilted [algorithm] for transcendental meditation mantras (”Don’t look at the big pile.”)

Chiwetel Ejiofer portrays Mike Terry whose mantra is that "There is always an escape."

Hierophant