jeremiad

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jeremiad

valittaminen, kantelu, valitusvirsi, jeremiadi, vuodatus.

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jeremiad (englanti > suomi)

  1. valitusvirsi, vuodatus, jeremiadi

jeremiad englanniksi

  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.

  2. 1895(w), s:The Moving Finger|The Moving Finger, s:The Moving Finger/A Diggers Christmas|A Digger's Christmas''

  3. "Father Maguire," he said in the broadest of Cork brogues, without the ghost of a smile on his grave Irish face, "is it a song yez wantin'? Well, thin, it's just a jeremiad I 'd be singin' yez, an' not another song at all, at all."
  4. 2006: The Columbus Dispatch, May 5

  5. “This is precisely the manner of Balkanization that Schlesinger cautioned us about in his prescient jeremiad on multiculturalism, The Disuniting of America.”
  6. 2007, The Guardian, http://film.guardian.co.uk/cannes2007/story/0,,2083430,00.html

  7. Cannes is smacking its lips in anticipation of filmmaker and provocateur Michael Moore's latest jeremiad against the US administration, which receives its premiere at the film festival today.

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