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Pathos   /pˈeɪθɑs/   Listen
Pathos

noun
1.
A quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow).  Synonym: poignancy.
2.
A feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others.  Synonyms: commiseration, pity, ruth.
3.
A style that has the power to evoke feelings.






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"Pathos" Quotes from Famous Books



... with short yet deep enthusiasm, with more than one tearful pause, on the virtues of his mother; he acknowledged the unbounded gratitude which was due to that God who had so wonderfully conducted him to find a parent and a home in England, and with renewed pathos of look and manner ratified the proffer which Sir Robert had made of his heart and hand to her who alone on this earth had reminded him of that angelic parent. "I nave seen her beloved face, luminous in ...
— Thaddeus of Warsaw • Jane Porter

... Beautiful in its pathos is the poem of "A Court Lady," and there are few satires more biting than "An August Voice," which, as an interpretation of the Napoleonic words, is perfect. Nor did she fail to vindicate the Peace ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 8, No. 47, September, 1861 • Various

... deep pathos in his voice, "no one can be better aware than I am that I have made many mistakes in the course of my life; but that quality on which I think I have reason to be satisfied with myself is my rigidity when I know a thing is wrong. There occurs to me now an instance in my career which will prove to ...
— The Stories of the Three Burglars • Frank Richard Stockton

... not bathos, The one by an early Chinese, The other, that infinite pathos, Our Nursery Rhymes, if you please. He was lost, he avowed, in this era; His spirit was seared by the West, But he deemed to be Monk in Madeira Would probably suit ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, VOL. 100. Feb. 28, 1891 • Various

... good English account of Vienna during the Congress will be found in "Travels in Hungary," by Dr. R. Bright, the eminent physician. His visit to Napoleon's son, then a child five years old, is described in a passage of singular beauty and pathos. ...
— History of Modern Europe 1792-1878 • C. A. Fyffe


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