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Webster 1913 Edition
Pathos
Pa′thos
(pā′thŏs)
, Noun.
[L., from Gr.
πάθοσ
a suffering, passion, fr. παθεῖν
, πάσχεῖν
, to suffer; cf. πόνοσ
toil, L. pati
to suffer, E. patient
.] 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 cryThe combination of incident, and the
pathos
of catastrophe. T. Warton.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pathos
PA'THOS
,Noun.