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"text": "How meanly has he closed his inflated career! What a sample of the bathos will his history present!",
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"ref": "1847, Emily Brontë, chapter XXI, in Wuthering Heights",
"text": "I know what he suffers now, for instance, exactly: it is merely a beginning of what he shall suffer, though. And he’ll never be able to emerge from his bathos of coarseness and ignorance.",
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"ref": "2018, Matthew d'Ancona, “The Tories are a party in crisis, their identity in desperate shape”, in Guardian",
"text": "Thus can the ideology of the fringe, the pinstripe mutterings of the nativist few, end up determining the trajectory of an entire nation. This is where bathos meets tragedy.",
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"lang": "French",
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"word": "bathos"
},
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"lang": "German",
"sense": "unintentional failure at artistic effect",
"word": "Bathos"
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{
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"sense": "overdone pathos",
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