English
Pronunciation
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-aɪəd|-aɪəd
Noun
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en-noun
- a long speech or prose work that bitterly laments the state of society and its morals in a serious tone of sustained invective, and often contains a prophecy of its coming downfall
Quotations
2006: The Columbus Dispatch, May 5
:“This is precisely the manner of Balkanization that Schlesinger cautioned us about in his prescient jeremiad on multiculturalism, The Disuniting of America.â€
2007, The Guardian, 1
Category:English eponyms
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