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jaer-uh-MAI-uhd
noun
a lengthy complaint or harangue; a prophesy of doom
1884Against The GrainWhen Des Esseintes had studied theology, he was already sick and weary of the old monk's preachings and jeremiads, his theories on predestination and grace, his combats against the schisms.1901The Purple CloudHowever, the bodies here were not numerous, most, as before, being foreigners: and these, scattered about this strict old English burg that mourning dark night, presented such a scene of the baneful wrath of God, and all abomination of desolation, as broke me quite down at one place, where I stood in travail with jeremiads and sore sobbings and lamentations, crying out upon it all, God knows.1903The Way of All FleshMoreover, Puritanism restricted natural pleasures; it substituted the Jeremiad for the Paean, and it forgot that the poor abuses of all times want countenance.1908Vanished ArizonaBut, alas, evil times have fallen upon us, and—I'm not writing a jeremiad—I took the book from the post office and when I saw the crossed guns and the '8' there was a lump in my throat, and I went into the barber shop and read it through before I left.1912Rolling StonesNot grief, but a hereditary rapprochement with death in the abstract, moved her to a dismal, watery snuffling, accompanied by her usual jeremiad.Labels: Joris-Karl Huysmans, Martha Summerhayes, Matthew Phipps Shiel, O. Henry, Samuel Butler
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