jeremiad /ˌd͡ʒɛɹ.əˈmaɪ.əd/ noun1 •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.“This is precisely the manner of Balkanization that Schlesinger cautioned us about in his prescient jeremiad on multiculturalism, “The Disuniting of America.”” — 2006 formsjeremiads