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sentimentalize, v.|sɛntɪˈmɛntəlaɪz|
[f. sentimental a. + -ize.]
1. a. intr. To indulge in sentimental thoughts or expressions. Also with about. Cf. sentimentize v.
1788W. Combe Orig. Lett. Sterne 14 In the mean time we will philosophize and sentimentalize;—the last word is a bright invention of the moment in which it was written, for yours or Dr. Johnson's service. 1812M. Edgeworth Emilie de Coulanges (1856) 201 They reproach and torment themselves, and refine and sentimentalize, till gratitude becomes burdensome. 1831Southey in Q. Rev. XLV. 194 Here the historian of the conspiracy sentimentalizes. 1860Chamb. Jrnl. XIV. 50 Coming out..to flirt and sentimentalise, and tease and love. 1902R. Bagot Donna Diana ii. 16 There is no novelty, no freshness, no mystery, for us—nothing, in short, to sentimentalize about.
b. quasi-trans. with adv.
1796Plain Sense (ed. 2) II. 40 He will not find me so soon moralized and sentimentalized out of my rights as he found your sister.
2. trans. To make (a person, etc.) sentimental; to imbue (a person, work of art, etc.) with sentiment or sentimental qualities.
1821Examiner 445/1 His leisure time he amuses..with cultivating his garden, and sentimentalizing it with inscriptions. 1832Mrs. Stowe Let. in Life (1889) III. 62 Coming away from New England has sentimentalised us all. 1874Symonds Sk. Italy & Greece (1898) I. i. 12 Unrestrained indulgence in the pleasures of music..may tend to..sentimentalise the mind.
3. To turn into an object of sentiment.
1872Howells Wedd. Journ. (1892) 232 O yes.., sentimentalise him, do! Why don't you sentimentalise his helpless, overworked horse?
Hence sentiˈmentalized ppl. a.; sentiˈmentalizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1789E. Sheridan Jrnl. 20 Aug. (1960) viii. 184 Tickell marries Miss Lee next week and so ends his sentimentalising. 1856Kane Arctic Explor. II. xix. 197, I..whipped up my dogs so much after the manner of a sentimentalizing Christian, that our pagan Metek raised a prayer in their behalf. 1861Sat. Rev. 22 June 650 Sentimentalizing with the Magdalen and swearing at the Papist are two forms of religious zeal already far too popular in England to need any additional stimulus. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. iv. 105 He might stay at Mount-Royal for months sentimentalizing with Christabel. |