

May 8, 2014 This week's theme

Biblical characters who became words



This week's words

ananias

solomon

samson

jeremiad

methuselah



Jeremiah on the Sistine Chapel ceiling Art: Michelangelo

Image: Wikipedia Biblical characters who became words A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg



jeremiad PRONUNCIATION: (jer-uh-MY-uhd)

MEANING: noun: A long lamentation, mournful complaint, or a prophecy of doom.

ETYMOLOGY: After Jeremiah, a Hebrew prophet during the seventh and sixth centuries BCE, who prophesied the fall of the kingdom of Judah and whose writings are collected in Lamentations in the Old Testament. Earliest documented use: 1780. Also see jeremiah

USAGE:

Welcome to Our World of Seven Billion People; The New Zealand Herald (Auckland); Oct 29, 2011.



See more usage examples of "Once upon a time, the passing of population milestones might have been cause for celebration. Now it gives rise to jeremiads."Welcome to Our World of Seven Billion People; The New Zealand Herald (Auckland); Oct 29, 2011.See more usage examples of jeremiad in Vocabulary.com's dictionary

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers. -Thomas Pynchon, writer (b. 1937)





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