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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Bathos

/(bā"thŏs)/ · Ba·thos · IPA /ˈbeɪθɒs/
01 n. A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.
  1. 1.
    A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.(Rhet.)