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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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Morton Eden's reports to Grenville form an unrelieved jeremiad.
But neither is it a rigorous sociological study or a polemic or a jeremiad.
Huckabee should deliver a jeremiad lambasting Washington for its role in fostering the housing collapse and the Great Recession.
Hanneh Breineh, in a friendly manner, settled herself on the sound end of the bed, and began her jeremiad.
They differ in almost every other respect, but in these shared interests they both belong to the ancient and always fascinating genre of the jeremiad.
The album's closer is an affecting jeremiad against video games, bling, ahistorical media, and spiritual shortsightedness.

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