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jeremiads

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jer⋅e⋅mi⋅ad

  [jer-uh-mahy-uhd, -ad]
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–noun
a prolonged lamentation or mournful complaint.
Origin:
1770–80; Jeremi(ah) + -ad, in reference to Jeremiah's Lamentations
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jer·e·mi·ad   (jěr'ə-mī'əd)   
n.  A literary work or speech expressing a bitter lament or a righteous prophecy of doom.

[French jérémiade, after Jérémie, Jeremiah, author of The Lamentations, from Late Latin Ieremiās; see Jeremiah1.]
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jeremiad 
1780, from Fr. jérémiade (1762), in allusion to "Lamentations of Jeremiah" in Old Testament.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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