jer·e·mi·ad (j
r
-m
d)
n.
A literary work or speech expressing a bitter lament or a righteous prophecy of doom.
[French jérémiade, after Jérémie, Jeremiah, author of The Lamentations, from Late Latin Ieremi
s; see Jeremiah1.]
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