jeremiad
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- noun
- /ˌdʒɛrəˈmaɪəd/
- Literature
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jeremiada
- The author's latest book is a poignant jeremiad that highlights social injustices faced by many.
Examples
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When Foster finished his jeremiad, the crowd appeared somewhat stunned.
Academic text (1994) -
Critics will discern symptoms of decline in every passage of history, and jeremiads alone cannot substantiate the existence of a moral crisis.
Academic text (1994) -
I think you should have some writers write some jeremiads for him.
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Again, Davis's use of the jeremiad, I would suggest, does not fall into this tradition.
Academic text (1994) -
The loss of housekeeping skills among American women was a popular jeremiad.
Academic text (2014) -
In McNaughton, Morgan finds something old: a jeremiad against the current American political establishment.
Blog text (22) -
There have been countless penmanship jeremiads in recent decades, lamenting the loss of fine handwriting.
Academic text (2007) -
As he listened to the tone of our present discontents, he could not help noticing echoes of earlier jeremiads.
Academic text (1991) -
By 1861, the American jeremiad had long evolved from a Puritan sermon into a mode of middle-class social prophecy.
Academic text (1994) -
His lengthy jeremiad about the decline of education left us all feeling disheartened.
Synonyms
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6.1
A sad song, poem, or cry that shows grief
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7.7
A strong feeling of sadness that people show by crying
How Mournful
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Jeremiad comes from the Bible prophet Jeremiah, who made long, sad warnings about his people's troubles. So a jeremiad is a long, mournful 'complaint' or a list of 'troubles'.