14 June 2016
jeremiad
[jer-uh-mahy-uh d, -ad]
noun
1. a prolonged lamentation or mournful complaint.
Origin of jeremiad
1770-1780; Jeremi(ah) + -ad1in reference to Jeremiah’s Lamentations
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Examples from the Web for jeremiad
Contemporary Examples
But neither is it a rigorous sociological study or a polemic or a jeremiad.
Too Soon to Write: Choire Sicha’s ‘Very Recent History’
Stefan Beck
August 7, 2013
The Task Force report is a blend of modern bureaucratese and the old Judeo-Christian tradition of the jeremiad.
Did the Southern Baptist ‘Conservative Resurgence’ Fail?
Molly Worthen
May 31, 2014
Huckabee should deliver a jeremiad lambasting Washington for its role in fostering the housing collapse and the Great Recession.
Mike Huckabee’s Bully Pulpit: Economic Populism
Lloyd Green
December 23, 2013
Historical Examples
Hanneh Breineh, in a friendly manner, settled herself on the sound end of the bed, and began her jeremiad.
Hungry Hearts
Anzia Yezierska
However, here is my jeremiad after all; it seems to have been inevitable!
The Life; Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
Modeste Tchaikovsky
Anagram
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Today’s quote
Passion is needed for any great work, and for the revolution, passion and audacity are required in big doses.
– Che Guevara
On this day
14 June 1158 – Munich founded by Henry the Lion on the banks of the River Isar.
14 June 1789 – The Reverend Elijah Craig becomes the first person to distill whisky from maize. The new whisky is named bourbon, because that is the county in Kentucky that Reverend Craig lived in.
14 June 1928 – birth of Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara, Argentinian Marxist revolutionary, physician, author. Executed 9 October 1967 on the order of Bolivian President Rene Barrientos.
14 June 1936 – death of Gilbert Keith Chesterton (otherwise known as G.K. Chesterton – born 29 May 1874), English writer, lay theologian, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer and owner of one of the world’s worst pompadours:
14 June 1937 – The USA passes the Marihuana Tax Act, which taxed the sale of cannabis.
14 June 1982 – Argentina surrenders to Great Britain after the six week Falkland’s War.
14 June 2007 – Former Ku Klux Klan member, 71 year old James Seale is found guilty of a number of charges related to the 1964 murder of two civil rights activists in Mississippi. He was sentenced to three life terms of imprisonment. His conviction was overturned the following year, before being reinstated. He died in prison in 2011.