[ˌdʒɛrɪˈmʌɪad], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a long, mournful complaint or lamentation; a list of woes
(e.g: the jeremiads of puritan preachers warning of moral decay)


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Origin:
late 18th century: from French jérémiade, from Jérémie ‘Jeremiah’, from ecclesiastical Latin Jeremias, with reference to the Lamentations of Jeremiah in the Old Testament