What's the difference between jeremiad and prophecy?

Jeremiad


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Jeremiade

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Trump's campaign manager Corey Lewandowski will not face battery charges Read more In a jeremiad against political correctness redolent of his future employer, Miller writes that “politically correct dictates are anathema to American values”.
  • (2) When I asked my friend the professor of gender studies about all this stuff some time ago (I know this sounds like the overture to a joke, but it isn't), I was semi-secretly hoping for a jeremiad on the wickedness of princess-mania, and tips on how she'd saved her daughters from it.Actually, she said, one of hers had that obsession too, for a bit – but that other obsessions came along to supplant them.
  • (3) What few of us realised at the time was that Osborne, while endorsing most of Jimmy’s jeremiads, also had a sneaking sympathy for his father-in-law, Colonel Redfern, an upper-class relic of the Raj.
  • (4) He quotes the jeremiads of self-styled Red Tory Phillip Blond about Britain having become a bipolar nation in which a bureaucratic, centralised state presides over a fragmented, disempowered and isolated citizenry.

Prophecy


Definition:

  • (n.) A declaration of something to come; a foretelling; a prediction; esp., an inspired foretelling.
  • (n.) A book of prophecies; a history; as, the prophecy of Ahijah.
  • (n.) Public interpretation of Scripture; preaching; exhortation or instruction.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) JGB: I think science fiction always has had a predictive role, and many of its prophecies have come true.
  • (2) He feels the need to lift the mood partly because he is concerned that talk of a return to recession could turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy as tumbling consumer confidence reduces demand, increases worklessness and lowers demand.
  • (3) Intrusive thoughts – especially anxious ones about erectile capacity – very often become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
  • (4) But the most worrying problem with rank and yank is it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
  • (5) Lakota leader Crazy Horse spoke of his vision of that prophecy with the following words: Upon suffering beyond suffering, the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world.
  • (6) To fulfil Wenger’s prophecy about Walcott’s evolution it would make sense for him to get a clutch of games to develop his rhythm.
  • (7) Tobin wrote: "Despite the dire science-fiction prophecies that accompany every period of high unemployment, revival of aggregate demand has always created jobs in numbers vastly beyond the imagination of the pessimists … Structural labour market policies can make only marginal improvements."
  • (8) This behavior results in a "self-fulfilling prophecy".
  • (9) West’s novels have an astonishing record of prophecy.
  • (10) Her prophecy came true, with her grandson coming to London as a research fellow at St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Hospital School of Medicine and Dentistry (Barts) in 1974.
  • (11) They were printed cheaply on a single side of paper, which contained lyrics, tunes and woodcut illustrations, as well as news, prophecy, political or religious messages, satire and comedy.
  • (12) If one child does not come to school that is too high a price to pay ... and then in educational terms it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy."
  • (13) As with all prophecies of doom, or indeed those of an impending economic boom, we should treat such visions with caution.
  • (14) The message that even if you don’t like Putin, there is no alternative, has become a self-fulfilling prophecy due to the state machine that ensures no opposition forces can ever get too much oxygen.
  • (15) One called A Prophecy for 1973 imagines a future utopia without poverty and hunger, which seems as distant today as in 1873 when it was probably composed.
  • (16) But DeMoro insisted he had a meaningful chance of becoming president and dismissed the concerns as a “self-fulfilling prophecy” by Democratic party leaders.
  • (17) This report deals with the influence of the self-fulfilling prophecy on dental prophylaxis.
  • (18) In order for an awake intubation to be successful, it is absolutely essential that the patient be properly prepared; otherwise, the anesthesiologist will simply fulfill a self-defeating prophecy.
  • (19) This prophecy may have seemed far-fetched when first published in 1903, but it was to prove more and more compelling as the century advanced.
  • (20) Whatever its origins, the Bugarach prophecy has implanted itself in France's collective consciousness.