jeremiad

[jer-uh-mahy-uh

d, -ad]

Origin

noun

a prolonged lamentation or mournful complaint.

Origin:
1770–80; Jeremi(ah) + -ad, in reference to Jeremiah's Lamentations

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jeremiad (ˌdʒɛrɪˈmaɪəd)

—n
	a long mournful lamentation or complaint

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jeremiad

1780, from Fr. jérémiade (1762), in allusion to "Lamentations of Jeremiah" in Old Testament.

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