jeremiade

In the remembrance, and in contrasting that all-so-long-ago with the times in which we live, I could write a jeremiade upon "Conversation as a Lost Art."

Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910

From him he heard a voluble flow of words dealing with regrets, expressions of disgust, one lament after the other, a jeremiade on hard times, maledictions hurled at dilatory creditors, infinite consolation — and empty advice.

Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903

Plain Talk with the authorship, alleging that the internal evidence showed that none but that veteran old croaker could have penned such a jeremiade -- yet, for all this, the stone stood.

The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855

It is compelled to confess the recent advance of evangelical doctrines in the German mind, but sees only evil in the fact, and utters this jeremiade: "This church sentiment, which has seized upon the whole of the _noblesse_ in North

History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology 1868