| 释义 |
sentimentalist|sɛntɪˈmɛntəlɪst|
[formed as prec. + -ist.]
One who cultivates or affects sentimentality; one who holds sentimental doctrines.
1783Scots 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. 1784R. Bell (title) Illuminations for legislators and for sentimentalists. 1793W. Roberts Looker-on No. 63 (1794) II. 447 Let such as come under this latter description..not be confounded with..those barren sentimentalists who love to refine upon sorrows without relieving them. 1821Hood Sent. Journ. Wks. 1862 I. 34 Some sentimentalists would have vented them upon the first dead dog or lame chicken they might meet with. 1858J. H. Newman Hist. Sk. III. iv. viii. 398 They were not dreamy sentimentalists to fall in love with melancholy winds. 1890Spectator 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.
attrib.a1864Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1879) I. 29 A sighing, sentimentalist lover. |