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- adjective Archaic form of
pathetic .
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Examples
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When he had got down upon the foot-pavement, he called out, ‘Fare you well;’ and without looking back, sprung away with a kind of pathetick briskness, if I may use that expression, which seemed to indicate a struggle to conceal uneasiness, and impressed me with a foreboding of our long, long separation.
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When he had got down upon the foot-pavement, he called out, 'Fare you well;' and without looking back, sprung away with a kind of pathetick briskness, if I may use that expression, which seemed to indicate a struggle to conceal uneasiness, and impressed me with a foreboding of our long, long separation.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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When he had got down upon the foot-pavement, he called out, 'Fare you well;' and without looking back, sprung away with a kind of pathetick briskness, if I may use that expression, which seemed to indicate a struggle to conceal uneasiness, and impressed me with a foreboding of our long, long separation.
Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood James Boswell 1767
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But Thompson spoke from immediate experience and made his point well—despite a readiness to indulge in what he called a “pathetick apostrophe: ‘O! my country, never give up your annual elections, young men never give up your jewell!’”
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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But Thompson spoke from immediate experience and made his point well—despite a readiness to indulge in what he called a “pathetick apostrophe: ‘O! my country, never give up your annual elections, young men never give up your jewell!’”
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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But Thompson spoke from immediate experience and made his point well—despite a readiness to indulge in what he called a “pathetick apostrophe: ‘O! my country, never give up your annual elections, young men never give up your jewell!’”
Ratification Pauline Maier 2010
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Flower, &c. Besides, I have a Prison – Scene, which the Ladies always reckon charmingly pathetick.
The Beggar's Opera 2007
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He could not represent a succession of pathetick images.
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I endeavoured to defend that pathetick and beautiful tragedy, and repeated the following passage:
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Let me close the scene on that unfortunate House with the elegant and pathetick reflections of Voltaire, in his Histoire
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