Pathos
['peɪθɒs] or ['peθɑs]
Definition
(noun.) a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow); 'the film captured all the pathos of their situation'.
(noun.) a style that has the power to evoke feelings.
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Definition
(n.) That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Passion, warmth of feeling, tender emotion.[2]. Pathetic quality, tender tone.
Typist: Psyche
Definition
n. that in anything (as a word a look &c.) which touches the feelings or raises the tender emotions: the expression of deep feeling.—n. Pathom′etry the distinction of suffering into different kinds.
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Examples
- You are weeping at the pathos of the air. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- What unutterable pathos was in his voice! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I do not think that I could much longer have endured the pathos of his quiet and uncomplaining grief. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Humor and pathos make it alive, and you have found your style at last. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Don't sit up, Dodo, you are so pale to-night: go to bed soon, said Celia, in a comfortable way, without any touch of pathos. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Again the instruments ended the tune; again they recommenced with as much fire and pathos as if it were the first strain. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- One prisoner of fifteen years had scratched verses upon his walls, and brief prose sentences--brief, but full of pathos. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The absurdity of the situation put its pathos to the rout. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Yet they moved Birkin with a sort of pathos, tenderness, as if they were childish. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- You are weeping at the pathos of the air. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- What unutterable pathos was in his voice! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I do not think that I could much longer have endured the pathos of his quiet and uncomplaining grief. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Humor and pathos make it alive, and you have found your style at last. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Don't sit up, Dodo, you are so pale to-night: go to bed soon, said Celia, in a comfortable way, without any touch of pathos. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Again the instruments ended the tune; again they recommenced with as much fire and pathos as if it were the first strain. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- One prisoner of fifteen years had scratched verses upon his walls, and brief prose sentences--brief, but full of pathos. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The absurdity of the situation put its pathos to the rout. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Yet they moved Birkin with a sort of pathos, tenderness, as if they were childish. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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