| 单词 | the bathetic |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe bathetic Characterized by bathos; ‘sinking’ rhetorically, or in literary style; absol. the bathetic = bathos n. (A favourite word of reviewers.) ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > weakness or feebleness > [adjective] > ludicrous descent to the commonplace bathetica1834 bathotic1863 a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 163 Even Warburton would scarcely have made so deep a plunge into the bathetic. 1866 London Rev. 15 Sept. 289/1 The bathetic of our women novelists. 1879 T. P. O'Connor Ld. Beaconsfield 189 His bathetic and impotent epic. 1884 Inquirer 21 June 390/1 Verbose when they should have been concise, bathetic when they wanted to be pathetic. < as lemmas |
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