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单词 jeremiah
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Jeremiahn.

Brit. /ˌdʒɛrᵻˈmʌɪə/, U.S. /ˌdʒɛrəˈmaɪə/
Etymology: < the name of the Hebrew prophet Jeremiah (see jeremiad n.).
Used allusively to denote a person given to lamentation or woeful complaining.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [noun] > lamenter(s)
sorrowfuleOE
mournera1425
lamenter1589
sorrower1613
deplorer1687
Jeremiah1781
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 620 The vague and tedious lamentations of the British Jeremiah [sc. Gildas].
1902 Daily Chron. 15 Oct. 3/1 This talk about the rate-payers only came from municipal Jeremiahs.
1905 Daily Chron. 1 Sept. 5/7 The Jeremiahs have been on the rampage; the dismal and the doleful would-be experts [etc.].
1928 Daily Express 23 Feb. 3/5 There are always Jeremiahs who go about saying that we have never had such bad times.
1928 Observer 22 July 16/3 The Socialists are..bound to be confirmed Jeremiahs by the necessity of their propaganda.
1963 Times 22 Apr. 8/5 Mr. Selwyn Lloyd..wanted to see Young Conservatives ‘rise up in protest against the Jeremiahs, defeatists, pessimists, denigrators’, [etc.].
1973 Listener 15 Nov. 655/1 I am not going to try to play the role of prophet, least of all Jeremiah.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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