Jeremiah

Definitions

1. A person who is pessimistic about the present and foresees a calamitous future; a prophet of doom.
2. An ancient prophet, the author of the Book of Jeremiah, and of the Lamentations.
3. A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.
4. A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin.

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Examples

“And Ieremiah lamented for Ioſiah, and all the ſinging men and the ſinging women ſpake of Ioſiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Iſrael; and beholde, they are written in the Lamentations.”

“The man whom you call⟳ Diarmaid when you speak⟳ Irish, a low, pernicious, un-Irish, detestable custom, begot by slavery, and propagated by cringing, and fostered by flunkeyism, forces you to call⟳ Jeremiah when you speak⟳ English, or as a concession, Darby.”

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