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jeremiad|dʒɛrɪˈmaɪæd|
Also -ade.
[a. F. jérémiade (1762 in Hatz.-Darm.), f. Jérémie, L. Jeremias Jeremiah, in reference to the ‘Lamentations of Jeremiah’ in the Old Testament.]
A lamentation; a writing or speech in a strain of grief or distress; a doleful complaint; a complaining tirade; a lugubrious effusion.
1780H. More in W. Roberts Mem. (1834) I. 186 It has been long the fashion to make the most lamentable Jeremiades on the badness of the times. 1791–1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit., Prediction, I have been occasionally struck at the Jeremiads of honest George Withers. 1844W. H. Maxwell Sports & Adv. Scotl. xv. (1855) 140 The lady commenced a Jeremiade. 1875Helps Ess., Convers. Railway Carriage 192, I could sit down, and mourn, and utter doleful Jeremiads without end. |