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Jeremiad

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Jeremiad 

(from the name of the Biblical prophet Jeremiah, who lamented the fall of Jerusalem), a bitter complaint, a lamentation, a mournful, sorrowful song. The word “jeremiad” is sometimes used in an ironic sense.



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