单词 | jeremiah |
释义 | Jeremiahn. Used allusively to denote a person given to lamentation or woeful complaining. ΘΚΠ 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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