A masculine given name, also referring to a long, mournful speech of complaint or lamentation.
From the Hebrew name Yirmeyahu, meaning 'God will exalt.' The prophet Jeremiah in the Bible wrote the 'Lamentations,' so his name became associated with sorrowful prophecies or complaints.
The word 'jeremiad' (a long complaint) literally comes from the prophet Jeremiah, whose book of Lamentations was so full of doom and gloom that complaining people are still compared to him 2,600 years later!
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