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  • noun Plural form of pathos.

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  • Pretty village scenes of common life, -- pleasant domestic passages, with a touch of easy humor in them, -- little pathoses and fancynesses, are abundant enough; and Wilkie, to be sure, has done more than this, though not a great deal more.

    Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

  • Pretty village scenes of common life, -- pleasant domestic passages, with a touch of easy humor in them, -- little pathoses and fancynesses, are abundant enough; and Wilkie, to be sure, has done more than this, though not a great deal more.

    Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

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