† foster-feelingn.
One who ‘fosters feeling’, a sentimental person.Apparently an isolated use.
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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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