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A '''jeremiad''' is a long [[literature|literary]] work in which there is a lament over degeneracy. Sometimes it denounces a [[society]] for its wickedness. <ref>{{Nuttall|Jeremiad}}</ref>  It is named for the Biblical book of ''Jeremiah'', and some prominent examples are Frederick Douglass' ''A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave'', wherein amidst the author's personal story he intersperses emotional and rational attacks upon the institution of slavery, and Sam Harris' ''Letter to a Christian Nation.''
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A '''jeremiad''' is a long [[literature|literary]] work, in either poetry or prose, in which there is a lament over degeneracy. Sometimes it denounces a [[society]] for its wickedness. <ref>{{Nuttall|Jeremiad}}</ref>  It is named for the Biblical book of ''Jeremiah'', and some prominent examples are Frederick Douglass' ''A Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave'', wherein amidst the author's personal story he intersperses emotional and rational attacks upon the institution of slavery, and Sam Harris' ''Letter to a Christian Nation.''
    
== See also ==
 
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