jeremiad
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“People think she came out of nowhere to deliver this Jeremiad of ‘Silent Spring,’ but she had three massive best sellers about the sea before that,” McKibben says.
From New York Times • Sep. 21, 2012
Happily, my lines fell in these pleasanter places; and, whatever the unavoidable trials, it were base ingratitude in an experimental pilgrim among the mail-bags to indite a new Jeremiad thereon.
From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by DeLeon, T. C.
On this subject he sang a Jeremiad in the true cockney key.
From Recollections of Europe by Cooper, James Fenimore
Yet every page of it is a Jeremiad, an exhortation to his countryfolk to stop short on the road to ruin.
From Home Life in Germany by Sidgwick, Alfred, Mrs.
Jeremiad, a lament over degeneracy in modern times.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
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