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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'bathos' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions bathos noun  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 of sentiment: Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte - 1850. Etymology: From "depth". Used metaphorically from 1638 (Robert Sanderson).First used ironically by Pope (Bathos, 1727), in contrast to "sublime".        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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