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bathos
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[ˈbeɪθɒs], (Noun)
Definitions:
- (especially in a literary work) an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous
(e.g: his epic poem has passages of almost embarrassing bathos)
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Origin
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mid 17th century (first recorded in the Greek sense): from Greek, literally ‘depth’. The current sense was introduced by Alexander Pope in the early 18th century
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