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das Pathos

pathos, emotional grandiloquence

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Meaning

Solemn, often exaggerated expression of strong feelings.

Example: Die Rede kam ganz ohne Pathos aus und überzeugte gerade deshalb. (The speech did without any grandiloquence and convinced precisely because of that.)

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