jeremiad (A prolonged lamentation or complaint)

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• jeremiad — noun Etymology: French jérémiade, from Jérémie Jeremiah, from Late Latin Jeremias Date: 1780 a prolonged lamentation or complaint; also a cautionary or angry harangue …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• jeremiad — /jer euh muy euhd, ad/, n. a prolonged lamentation or mournful complaint. [1770 80; JEREMI(AH) + AD, in reference to Jeremiah s Lamentations] * * * …   Universalium

• LAMENTATIONS, BOOK OF — LAMENTATIONS, BOOK OF, one of the five scrolls in the Hagiographa section of the Bible, consisting of five poetic chapters, probably lamenting the destruction of Jerusalem in 587 B.C.E. and its aftermath. (The English title, like the Greek… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism