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bathos(dictionary)

bathos (iou)



bathos noun. M17.
[Greek = depth. In purely English sense 2 introduced by Pope.]
Depth, lowest phase, bottom. rare. M17.
S. Johnson Declining..to the very bathos of insipidity.
Rhetoric. Ludicrous descent from the elevated to the commonplace; anticlimax. E18.
A comedown; an anticlimax; a performance absurdly unequal to the occasion. E19.
F. Marryat It was rather a bathos..to sink from a gentleman's son to an under usher. L. A. G. Strong The rest of their married life will be one hideous bathos after the glory of its start.