bathoses

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A form of bathos — Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of bathos

    The sonnets' most flagrant fault lies in the bathoses into which their final couplets fall.

    1911, The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, volume 213, page 13
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