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Jeremiade   Listen
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Jeremiade, Jeremiad  n.  A tale of sorrow, disappointment, or complaint; a doleful story; a dolorous tirade; generally used satirically. "He has prolonged his complaint into an endless jeremiad."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Jeremiade" Quotes from Famous Books



... penitents and believers who will up and at the Saracens. He bade men fear lest Christians lose what land they have left. Fasting three days a week has been ordered. Prince Richard has the cross (and is one, to his father). Berter of Orleans sings a Jeremiad. Gilbert Foliot (foe to St. Thomas) is dead. Peace has been made between France of the red cross and England of the white, and Flanders of the green. King Henry has ordered a tax of a tenth, under pain of cursing, to be collected before the ...
— Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln - A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England • Charles L. Marson

... with his Jeremiad: a prophet of despair, do you say? No, he seeks to destroy only that falsity which would confine the living spirit. Earlier and more clearly than we, he discerned the menace to our civilization of the unrestricted play of the masculine forces—powerful, ruthless, disintegrating—the head dominating ...
— Architecture and Democracy • Claude Fayette Bragdon



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