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bathetic, a.|bəˈθɛtɪk|
[A mod. word, formed irregularly from bathos, on the assumed analogy of pathetic (which is not derived from pathos); cf. also bathotic.]
Characterized by bathos; ‘sinking’ rhetorically, or in literary style; absol. the bathetic = bathos. (A favourite word of reviewers.)
a1834Coleridge in Rem. (1836) II. 163 Even Warburton would scarcely have made so deep a plunge into the bathetic. 1866Lond. Rev. 15 Sept. 289/1 The bathetic of our women novelists. 1879O'Connor Beaconsfield 189 His bathetic and impotent epic. 1884Inquirer 21 June 390/1 Verbose when they should have been concise, bathetic when they wanted to be pathetic. |