Bathos: alternatives and connections

To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.

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of Close

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The last part of anything; close; termination; end.

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The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; th…

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of End

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The quality or state of being sentimental.

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An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded,…

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A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a building's exterior considered…

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A sentence in which the ideas fall, or become less important and striking, at the close; -- the opposite of climax. It produces a ridiculous effect.

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The quality or state of being mawkish.

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