† foster-feelingn.
One who ‘fosters feeling’, a sentimental person.Apparently an isolated use.
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the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [noun] > sentimental person
sentimentalist1778
foster-feeling1784
sentimental1784
sentimentalizer1865
sob sister1912
sob brother1914
marshmallow1935
1784 Unfortunate Sensibility II. 119 The luke-warm rhetoric of foster-feelings.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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n.1784- to lay adown
- to lay all in the dirt
- to lay all one's irons in the fire
- to lay along
- to lay an ambush
- to lay an egg
- to lay an eyeball on
- to lay an information
- to lay any one on his back
- to lay apart
- to lay aside
- to lay aside the tomahawk
- to lay asunning
- to lay at
- to lay at anchor
- to lay at or to door
- to lay at or to his door
- to lay athwart the hawse
- to lay away
- to lay back
- to lay bare
- to lay battery to
- to lay battery, blockade to
- to lay by
- to lay by the heels