English Dictionary

jeremiad

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌd͡ʒɛɹ.əˈmaɪ.əd/

名詞

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.

日本語の意味

社会や道徳の堕落を厳しく嘆く長い演説や散文作品、すなわち現状への苦言と将来の崩壊を予告する警告文とみなせるもの。

After reading the op-ed, she characterized it as a jeremiad against modern complacency rather than a constructive proposal.

社説を読んだ後、彼女はそれを建設的な提案というよりも、現代の安穏を激しく嘆き、しばしば没落を予言する長い嘆きの弁論だと評した。

意味（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.

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.

jeremiads （ plural ）