jeremiad
[jer-uh-mahy-uh d, -ad]
- a prolonged lamentation or mournful complaint.
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Origin of jeremiad
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Contemporary Examples
The Task Force report is a blend of modern bureaucratese and the old Judeo-Christian tradition of the jeremiad.
Huckabee should deliver a jeremiad lambasting Washington for its role in fostering the housing collapse and the Great Recession.
But neither is it a rigorous sociological study or a polemic or a jeremiad.
Historical Examples
The one wrote a Jeremiad about usury, and was called Jeremy Bentham.
The Works of Edgar Allan PoeEdgar Allan Poe
There was just truth enough in the Jeremiad to make it sting.
Tracks of a Rolling StoneHenry J. Coke
However, here is my jeremiad after all; it seems to have been inevitable!
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich TchaikovskyModeste Tchaikovsky
Now I've done my Jeremiad, and I will go on twanging my harp in the "willow tree."
Louisa May AlcottLouisa May Alcott
To-night, however, there were variety and spice with his Jeremiad.
The Goose GirlHarold MacGrath
jeremiad
- a long mournful lamentation or complaint
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Word Origin and History for jeremiad
n.
1780, from French jérémiade (1762), in reference to "Lamentations of Jeremiah" in Old Testament.
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