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Grammar : Noun
Spell : jer-uh-mahy-uh d, -ad
Phonetic Transcription : ˌdʒɛr əˈmaɪ əd, -æd

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Définition of jeremiad

Origin :
  • 1780, from French jérémiade (1762), in reference to "Lamentations of Jeremiah" in Old Testament.
  • noun tirade
Example sentences :
  • The one wrote a Jeremiad about usury, and was called Jeremy Bentham.
  • Extract from : « The Works of Edgar Allan Poe » by Edgar Allan Poe
  • There was just truth enough in the Jeremiad to make it sting.
  • Extract from : « Tracks of a Rolling Stone » by Henry J. Coke
  • However, here is my jeremiad after all; it seems to have been inevitable!
  • Extract from : « The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky » by Modeste Tchaikovsky
  • Now I've done my Jeremiad, and I will go on twanging my harp in the "willow tree."
  • Extract from : « Louisa May Alcott » by Louisa May Alcott
  • To-night, however, there were variety and spice with his Jeremiad.
  • Extract from : « The Goose Girl » by Harold MacGrath
  • English feeling about Jeremiah has long ago been summed up and stereotyped in the single word "jeremiad."
  • Extract from : « Expositor's Bible: The Book of Jeremiah » by William Henry Bennett
  • Hanneh Breineh, in a friendly manner, settled herself on the sound end of the bed, and began her jeremiad.
  • Extract from : « Hungry Hearts » by Anzia Yezierska
  • Jeremiad, jer-e-mī′ad, n. a lamentation: a tale of grief: a doleful story.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) » by Various
  • Whereupon Mr. Gilfillan, resolving that he should be a hearer at least, if not a disputant, proceeded in his Jeremiad.
  • Extract from : « Waverley » by Sir Walter Scott
  • The writer had nothing new to say, and, like most other such attacks, his jeremiad was in an hour or two forgotten.
  • Extract from : « The Loom of Youth » by Alec Waugh

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