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Complete Definition of "bathetic"

English

Adjective
en-adj

  1. Characterized by or pertaining to bathos.
#*1995, Rupert D. V. Glasgow, Madness, Masks, and Laughter: An Essay on Comedy, p. 214.
#*:The fall is indeed the archetypal bathetic motion, a sudden, surprising downward rush degrading the pretensions of posture and man's bipedal pride.

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