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单词 jeremiad
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jeremiad

/ˌdʒɛrɪˈmʌɪad /
noun
A long, mournful complaint or lamentation; a list of woes: the jeremiads of puritan preachers warning of moral decay...
  • I am saddened to add my jeremiad to the list of protestations at your coverage.
  • Indeed, there is not only irony but danger in offering such a public jeremiad against jeremiads.
  • Graff assembles other quotations in the same vein, and goes on to add, wryly, ‘The funny thing, of course, is that those jeremiads were right.’

Origin

Late 18th century: from French jérémiade, from Jérémie 'Jeremiah', from ecclesiastical Latin Jeremias, with reference to the Lamentations of Jeremiah in the Old Testament.

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