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jeremiad

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˌd͡ʒɛɹ.əˈmaɪ.əd/Part of speech nounSorted adeeijmrStarts with JEnds with D0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a long and mournful complaint

Word origin

From French jérémiade, from Jérémie, from Latin Ieremias, from Hebrew ירמיה (yirm'yá, “Jeremiah”). Named after biblical prophet Jeremiah, who lamented the moral state of Judah and predicted her downfall.

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  • Near-synonyms: diatribe, tirade, lamentation, lament, litany; see also Thesaurus:diatribe
  • “This is precisely the manner of Balkanization that Schlesinger cautioned us about in his prescient jeremiad on multiculturalism, “The Disuniting of America.””
  • Cannes is smacking its lips in anticipation of filmmaker and provocateur Michael Moore's latest jeremiad against the US administration, which receives its premiere at the film festival today.

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