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What is a jeremiad?

What is a jeremiad? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A long speech or prose work that bitterly laments the state of society and its morals, and often contains a prophecy of its coming downfall.
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The present is thus perceived as that period of declension that is the subject of the jeremiad.
The album's closer is an affecting jeremiad against video games, bling, ahistorical media, and spiritual shortsightedness.
If I really wanted to turn this into a jeremiad, I could hold forth on that for a while.
Hanneh Breineh, in a friendly manner, settled herself on the sound end of the bed, and began her jeremiad.
Indeed, there is not only irony but danger in offering such a public jeremiad against jeremiads.
The Task Force report is a blend of modern bureaucratese and the old Judeo-Christian tradition of the jeremiad.

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