Bathetically

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In a bathetic manner.

    "No wonder the cosmic question whether to call two such world systems true should simmer down, bathetically, to a question of words."

Example

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"No wonder the cosmic question whether to call two such world systems true should simmer down, bathetically, to a question of words."

Etymology

From bathetic + -ally.

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