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Definition of Bathetically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bathetically
Literary usage of Bathetically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Gamosagammon: Or, Hints on Hymen. For the Use of Parties about to Connubialize by Hon. Hugh Rowley (1870)
"We could have easily made a much thicker book, but, you see, thickness was not
our object; and, besides, our subject has already been—bathetically and ..."
2. The War for the World by Israel Zangwill (1916)
"... consisting of the whole of the civil population at home—and the army in the
field" he confessed bathetically, "could not last a single day without the ..."
3. The Realist: A Modern Romance by Herbert Flowerdew (1900)
"The efforts on which he had prided himself to discover Auguste Zant's motive
ended bathetically in this. ..."
4. Dom Quick Jota by Tom Seavy (1916)
"... affectionately, with coat-tails flying, with legs lifted, compassionately,
lovingly, caressingly, inexhaustibly, powerfully, pathetically, bathetically, ..."
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