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From the sublime to the ridiculous. Diocese sacrifices and … Well, gets nothing in return
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bathos
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Word definitions for bathos in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"anticlimax, a descent from the sublime to the ridiculous," 1727, from Greek bathos "depth," related to bathys "deep" (see benthos ). Introduced by Pope.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bathos \Ba"thos\ (b[=a]"th[o^]s), n. [Gr. ba`qos depth, fr. baqy`s deep.] (Rhet.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.
Usage examples of bathos.
And pathos and bathos delightful to see, And chop and change ribs, a-la-mode Germanorum, And high diddle ho diddle, pop tweedle dee.
It was a bad scene, filled with the sort of true-confession bathos that Ivor Balmi reviled with all his heart, yet was drawn into like a maelstrom.
It was difficult to get it out without falling into bathos or melodrama.
At all moments of greatness, he suspected, bathos had never been very far away-and certain he alone could sense its presence here.
Bret Harte in verse and story touched the parallels of tragedy and of comedy, of pathos, of bathos, and of humor, which love of life and lust of gold opened up amid the unapprehended grandeurs and the coveted treasures of primeval nature.
Wordsworth was perhaps the greater, because his bathos was the result of a deliberate and persistent attempt to enrich English poetry with prosaically versified incidents drawn at length from homely rural life.
The Coleridgian sonnet is not only imperfect in form and in marked contrast in the frequent bathos of its close to the steady swell and climax of Wordsworth, but, in by far the majority of instances in this volume, it is wanting in internal weight.
Brad Bathos, from the streets of Washington, where the mourners have come to gather, to pray, to weep, to lament, and to hope.
At all moments of greatness, he suspected, bathos had never been very far away-and certain he alone could sense its presence here.
This descent into bathos almost had Cass laughing out loud at herself.
I took a few sketchy breaths and remembered with bathos that I needed a telephone if I were ever to move from that spot.