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- Dictionaryjeremiad/ˌdʒɛrɪˈmʌɪad/
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- 1. a long, mournful complaint or lamentation; a list of woes: "the jeremiads of puritan preachers warning of moral decay"
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Long literary work, usually prose, bitterly lamenting the state of society and its morals in sustained invective, prophesying society’s imminent downfall
A jeremiad is a long literary work, usually in prose, but sometimes in verse, in which the author bitterly laments the state of society and its morals in a serious tone of sustained invective, and always contains a prophecy of society's imminent downfall. Generally, the term jeremiad is applied to moralistic texts that denounce a society for its wickedness, and prophesizes its downfall. Over time,... Wikipedia