6 July 2019
jeremiad
[ jer-uh-mahy-uh d, -ad ]
noun
a prolonged lamentation or mournful complaint.
ORIGIN OF JEREMIAD
1770–80; Jeremi(ah) + -ad1 in reference to Jeremiah’s Lamentations
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EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR JEREMIAD
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|JUNE 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
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 24, 2013|DAILY BEAST
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 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
To-night, however, there were variety and spice with his Jeremiad.
THE GOOSE GIRL|HAROLD MACGRATH
Today’s quote
Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
– Eckhart Tolle
On this day
6 June – Queensland Day, which celebrates the establishment of the colony of Queensland. On 6 June 1859, Queen Victoria gave her approval for the new colony by signing the Letters Patent. On the same day, an Order-in-Council gave Queensland its own Constitution.
6 June – Russian Language Day (UN) – coincides with the birthday of Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet who is considered the father of modern Russian literature.
6 June 1799 – birth of Aleksandr Pushkin, Russian poet and author of the romantic era. Considered the father of modern Russian literature. He was born into Russian nobility. His matrilineal great grandfather, Abram Gannibal, was brought over as a slave from Africa and had risen to the aristocracy. Died during a duel on 10 February 1837.
6 June 1808 – Napoleon’s brother, Joseph Bonaparte, is crowned King of Spain.
6 June 1844 – The Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
6 June 1939 – Judge Joseph Force Crater, known as the ‘Missingest man in New York’ is declared legally dead after going missing nine years earlier. His body has never been found, but his disappearance fueled allegations of corruption in the City government and lead to the downfall of political organisation, Tammany Hall.
6 June 1944 – D-day (Operation Overlord), when the Allies launch a massive invasion of Europe to combat the German war machine. Over a million Allied troops storm the beaches of Normandy.
6 June 1961 – death of Carl Jung, Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology. He developed the concepts of extraversion and introversion; archetypes and collective unconscious. Born 26 July 1875.
6 June 1982 – the Lebanon War begins when Israeli forces under the command of the Defence Minister, Ariel Sharon, invade southern Lebanon, eventually pushing into Beirut. It lasted until June 1985. Israel suffered 657 dead and 3,887 wounded. Syrian and Palestinian casualties were 19,085 civilian and combatant deaths.
6 June 1984 – Tetris, one of the world’s biggest selling games, is released.