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Topic: LITERATURE

Date: 1700-1800
Language: Greek
Origin: 'depth', from bathys 'deep'

bathos

 noun
     
ba‧thos [uncountable] formal
AL in writing, a play etc, a sudden change from a subject that is beautiful, moral, or serious to something that is ordinary, silly, or not important
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