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Webster 1913 Edition

Bathos

Ba′thos

(bā′thŏs)

,

Noun.

[Gr.

βάθοσ

depth, fr.

βαθύσ

deep.]

(Rhet.)

A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.

Webster 1828 Edition

Bathos

BA'THOS

,

Noun.

The art of sinking in poetry.