litany vs rehearsal

litany

noun
  • A prolonged or tedious list. 

  • A ritual liturgical prayer in which a series of prayers recited by a leader are alternated with responses from the congregation. 

rehearsal

noun
  • The act of rehearsing or contriving something; the fact of something's being rehearsed. 

  • A preparatory activity analogous to the rehearsal of a show. 

  • The practicing of something which is to be performed before an audience, usually to test or improve the interaction between several participating people, or to allow technical adjustments with respect to staging to be done. 

How often have the words litany and rehearsal occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )