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Etymology
From Gr. βαθος "depth". Used metaphorically from 1638 (Robert Sanderson).
First used ironically by Pope (Bathos, 1727), in contrast to υπσος "sublime".
Noun
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- depth|Depth, bottom.
- An abrupt change in style, usually from high to low; an unintended transition of style; an anticlimax.
- triteness|Triteness; triviality; banality.
- Overly sentimental and exaggerated pathos.
#:I like you more than I can say; but I'll not sink into a bathos of sentiment: Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte - 1850.
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