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单词 jeremiad
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jeremiadn.

Brit. /ˌdʒɛrᵻˈmʌɪad/, /ˌdʒɛrᵻˈmʌɪəd/, U.S. /ˌdʒɛrəˈmaɪˌæd/, /ˌdʒɛrəˈmaɪəd/
Forms: Also jeremiade.
Etymology: < French jérémiade (1762 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), < Jérémie, Latin 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.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [noun] > instance or act of lamenting
moan?c1225
mean?c1250
bimena1325
lamentation1382
queryc1400
pinec1440
tragedy1536
lamentc1592
complaint?1606
conclamation1627
quiritation1634
throb1635
pathetic1667
dismals1774
jeremiad1780
complain1820
tangi1836
Jobism1855
wail1867
rune1922
vigil1956
1780 H. 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.
1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. II. 451 I have been occasionally struck at the Jeremiads of honest George Withers.
1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. xv. 270 The lady commenced a Jeremiade.
1875 A. Helps Conversat. Railway Carriage in Ess. 192 I could sit down, and mourn, and utter doleful Jeremiads without end.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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