sentimentn.

a. Intellectual or emotional perception. Obsolete.

†b. plural ? Abilities. Obsolete. rare.

a. What one feels with regard to something; mental attitude (of approval or disapproval, etc.); an opinion or view as to what is right or agreeable. Often plural with collective sense.

b. In wider sense: An opinion, view (e.g. on a question of fact or scientific truth). ? Obsolete.

†c. Phrase. in the same sentiments with, in sentiment with: in agreement with, of the same mind as. Obsolete.

d. them's my sentiments: a colloquial expression of agreement or approval. (In quot. 1847, a declaration of belief.)

a. A mental feeling, an emotion. Now chiefly applied, and by psychologists sometimes restricted, to those feelings which involve an intellectual element or are concerned with ideal objects. In the 17–18th centuries often spec. an amatory feeling or inclination.

b. Phrenology. In plural, used as the name for the class of ‘faculties’ (including Veneration, Self-esteem, Benevolence, Wonder, etc.), which are concerned with emotion, and to which ‘organs’ are assigned at the top of the brain.

a. A thought or reflection coloured by or proceeding from emotion.

b. esp. An emotional thought expressed in literature or art; the feeling or meaning intended to be conveyed by a passage, as distinguished from the mode of expression.

c. An epigrammatical expression of some striking or agreeable thought or wish, often of the nature of a proverb or in proverbial language, announced in the manner of a toast by a person proposing to drink with others in company.

a. Refined and tender emotion; exercise or manifestation of ‘sensibility’; emotional reflection or meditation; appeal to the tender emotions in literature or art. Now chiefly in derisive use, conveying an imputation of either insincerity or mawkishness.

b. Emotional regard to ideal considerations, as a principle of action or judgement.