bathos

[From Gr. βάθος ( bathos ) = depth or height; βαθύς (bath us) = deep or high.] The opposite of the sublime in poetry or in style; anti-climax. "The taste of the bathos is implanted by nature itself in the soul of man; till, perverted by custom cus or example, he is taught, or rather compelled, to relish the sublime."-Arbuthnot and Pope: Mart. Scrib. *bā'-thre (thre as ther), po e ive case of adj . [From A.S. begra of both, from begen = both.] Of both. [Вотн, BOTHER.]