单词 | sentimentalist |
释义 | sentimentalistn. One who cultivates or affects sentimentality; one who holds sentimental doctrines. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > sentimentality > [noun] > sentimental person sentimentalist1778 foster-feeling1784 sentimental1784 sentimentalizer1865 sob sister1912 sob brother1914 marshmallow1935 1778 (title) Illuminations for legislators and for sentimentalists. 1783 Scots Trimmer iii. 27 Dean Milles, who is ravished with the beauties of Sterne, would, in all probability, have given the admirers of this charming sentimentalist a huge quarto, price only one guinea. 1784 R. Bell (title) Illuminations for legislators and for sentimentalists. 1793 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 60. 475 Let such as come under this latter description..not be confounded with..those barren sentimentalists who love to refine upon sorrows without relieving them. 1821 T. Hood Sent. Journey in Wks. (1862) I. 34 Some sentimentalists would have vented them upon the first dead dog or lame chicken they might meet with. 1858 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches III. iv. viii. 398 They were not dreamy sentimentalists to fall in love with melancholy winds. 1890 Spectator 15 Mar. The fixed notion that to help the rural poor you must injure the landlord, which is held by so many of the sentimentalists, makes it necessary to canvass all their schemes very closely. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < n.1778 |
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