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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Â© The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology 1996, originally published by Oxford University Press 1996. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

bathos XVIII. — Gr. báthos depth, f. bathús deep.
Hence bathetic XIX; after pathos, pathetic.

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