单词 | jeremiad |
释义 | jeremiadn. 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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