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unsentiˈmental, a.
(un-1 7.)
1752H. Walpole Let. 23 June (1974) XXXVII. 340 He..was even so unsentimental as to talk, of desiring to make her happy. 1810Scott in Lockhart (1839) III. 228 The despair..gave me a most unsentimental horror for sentimental letters. 1853C. Brontë Villette xxi, Never man had a more unsentimental mother than mine. 1898Haddon Stud. Man xiv. 409 An unsentimental survival of this pretty custom.
Hence unsentimenˈtality; -ˈmentalize v.; -ˈmentally adv.
1824Hook Sayings & Doings III. 168 Gaieties..calculated..to enliven and unsentimentalize the mind. Ibid. Ser. ii. I. 28 The impropriety and unsentimentality of her behaviour. Ibid. xiv. III. 300 She was..most unsentimentally employed in swallowing a very hearty supper. 1837Lewis Lett. (1870) 84 For the sake of..unsentimentalizing the cause of the Catholic clergy. 1847L. Hunt Men, Women, & B. II. ii. 25 The unsentimentalizing effects of the gallantry of the court of Charles II. |