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Definition of jeremiad noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

jeremiad

noun
 
/ˌdʒerɪˈmaɪæd/
 
/ˌdʒerɪˈmaɪæd/
(formal)
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  1. a very long sad complaint or list of complaints
    Word Originlate 18th cent.: from French jérémiade, from Jérémie ‘Jeremiah’, from ecclesiastical Latin Jeremias, with reference to the Lamentations of Jeremiah in the Old Testament in the Bible.
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