Definition of jeremiad
: a prolonged lamentation or complaint
also
: a cautionary or angry harangue
the warnings became jeremiads against the folly of overemphasis on science and technology at the expense of man's subjective and emotional life — Ada Louise Huxtable
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Merriam-Webster unabridged
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The first known use of jeremiad was in 1780
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