单词 | pathos |
释义 | pathosn. 1. An expression or utterance that evokes sadness or sympathy, esp. in a work of literature; a description, passage, or scene of this nature. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > quality of exciting pity > [noun] > expression or sentiment pathos1579 pathetics1702 the mind > language > speech > [noun] > that which is or can be spoken > in particular style or evoking particular emotion sugarc1374 pathos1579 satire1606 consolatory1654 sillyism1709 unction1815 1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May 189 Gloss. And with) A very Poeticall παθός [1591 pathos]. a1644 T. Westfield Englands Face (1646) 127 ‘Lord..If thou wilt pardon this people!’ It was a vehement pathos. 1759 A. Gerard Ess. on Taste i. iii. 40 In composition, the most refined reflections, the most elaborate descriptions, the warmest pathos displease. 1850 E. B. Browning tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 159 The founts of the pure-running rivers moan low In the pathos of woe. 1857 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 28 July in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. vi. 346 Little pathoses..are abundant enough. 1955 J. Miles in B. H. Lehman et al. Image of Work 81 The homely pathoses of Goldsmith and Cowper. 2. A quality which evokes pity, sadness, or tenderness; the power of exciting pity; affecting character or influence. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > [noun] patheticalnessa1607 movingness1661 pathos1668 stress1737 touchingnessa1750 patheticness1874 the mind > emotion > compassion > quality of exciting pity > [noun] piteousnessa1586 meltingness1622 pathos1668 pitiableness1694 touchingnessa1750 pitiability1865 pitifulness1897 1668 J. Dryden Of Dramatick Poesie 49 There is a certain gayety in their Comedies, and Pathos in their more serious Playes. 1745 E. Young Consolation 81 There dwells a noble Pathos in the Skies, Which warms our Passions. 1795 W. Seward Anecd. Distinguished Persons II. 145 In a style of the highest pathos, a style totally dissimilar from his usual manner. 1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. ii. xi. 263 He descanted on the woes of the land with a pathos which drew tears from every eye. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §6. 399 The tale of Protestant sufferings was told with a wonderful pathos..by John Foxe. 1987 USA Today 21 Oct. 6/7 The pride and pathos of that farewell are something I think none who saw it will ever forget. 2000 P. Beatty Tuff ix. 129 The first canto..would be read with dramatic caesuras inserted..between poignant images, for maximum pathos. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > [noun] sorec888 teeneOE sorrowOE workOE wrakeOE careOE gramec1000 harmOE howc1000 trayOE woweOE angec1175 derfnessc1175 sytec1175 unwinc1175 wosithc1200 ail?c1225 barrat?c1225 derf?c1225 grief?c1225 misease?c1225 misliking?c1225 ofthinkingc1225 passion?c1225 troublec1230 pinec1275 distress1297 grievancea1300 penancea1300 cumbermentc1300 languorc1300 cumbering1303 were1303 angera1325 strifea1325 sweama1325 woea1325 painc1330 tribulationc1330 illa1340 threst1340 constraintc1374 troublenessc1380 afflictiona1382 bruisinga1382 miseasetya1382 pressurec1384 exercisec1386 miscomfortc1390 mislikea1400 smarta1400 thronga1400 balec1400 painfulnessc1400 troublancec1400 smartness?c1425 painliness1435 perplexity?a1439 penalty?1462 calamity1490 penality1496 cumber?a1513 sussy1513 tribule1513 afflict?1529 vexation of spirit1535 troublesomeness1561 hoe1567 grievedness1571 tribulance1575 languishment1576 thrall1578 tine1590 languorment1593 aggrievedness1594 obturbation1623 afflictedness1646 erumny1657 pathos1684 shock1705 dree1791 vex1815 wrungnessa1875 dukkha1886 thinkache1892 sufferation1976 1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 223 Pathos, vid. Pathema. [Pathema is all preternatural Conturbation wherewith our Body is molested]. 1816 P. B. Shelley Alastor 12 With voice stifled in tremulous sobs Subdued by its own pathos. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Love & Duty in Poems (new ed.) II. 87 Shall sharpest pathos blight us, knowing all Life needs for life is possible to will. 1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) Pathos, affection, disease. 4. The quality of the transient or emotional, as opposed to the permanent or ideal (contrasted with ethos); emotion, passion. Chiefly with reference to ancient Greek rhetoric and art. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > work of art > qualities generally decoruma1568 humoura1568 variety1597 strength1608 uniformity1625 barbarity1644 freedom1645 boldness1677 correctness1684 clinquant1711 unity1712 contrast1713 meretriciousness1727 airiness1734 pathos1739 chastity1760 vigour1774 prettyism1789 mannerism1803 serio-comic1805 actuality1812 largeness1824 local colour1829 subjectivitya1834 idealism1841 pastoralism1842 inartisticalitya1849 academicism1852 realism1856 colour contrast1858 crampedness1858 niggling1858 audacity1859 superreality1859 literalism1860 pseudo-classicism1861 sensationalism1862 sensationism1862 chocolate box1865 pseudo-classicality1867 academism1871 actualism1872 academicalism1874 ethos1875 terribilità1877 local colouring1881 neoclassicism1893 mass effect1902 attack1905 verismo1908 kitsch1921 abstraction1923 self-consciousness1932 surreality1936 tension1941 build-up1942 sprezzatura1957 1739 H. Baker & J. Miller Learned Ladies iii. v. 93 We see everywhere the Ethos and Pathos with you. 1776 G. Campbell Philos. of Rhetoric I. i. vii. 207 The difference is a-kin to that..which the rhetoricians observe between pathos and ethos, passion and disposition. 1881 Q. Rev. Oct. 542 The real is preferred to the ideal, transient emotion to permanent lineaments, pathos to ethos. 1918 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. 22 144 The ‘pathos’ as well as the ‘ēthos’ shown by the reliefs is..characteristic of the transitional period. 1988 Christian Sci. Monitor (Nexis) 4 Mar. b4 The appeal to reason..is in danger of being lost in the electronic appeal to emotion (pathos) and to portray the politician's character (ethos) in the most favourable light. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1579 |
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