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Definition of Sentimentalise
1. Verb. Make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities. "These experiences have sentimentalized her"
2. Verb. Look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment. "Don't sentimentalize the past events"
Generic synonyms: Belie, Misrepresent
Derivative terms: Sentimentalisation
3. Verb. Act in a sentimental way or indulge in sentimental thoughts or expression.
Generic synonyms: Act, Behave, Do
Derivative terms: Sentimentalisation, Sentimentalization
Definition of Sentimentalise
1. Verb. (alternative spelling of sentimentalize) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sentimentalise
1. [v -ISED, -ISING, -ISES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sentimentalise
Literary usage of Sentimentalise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A College Man in Khaki: Letters of an American in the British Artillery by Wainwright Merrill (1918)
"... Trafalgar Square — Types in Camp — A Walk to Stonehenge — America's Part in
the War: "Don't Drivel and sentimentalise" 10th Canadians, CGA Camp No. ..."
2. Sketches on the Old Road Through France to Florence by Henry Woodd Nevinson, Montgomery Carmichael (1906)
"It is difficult to sentimentalise properly about an abbey building still entire
and put to up- to-date uses, just as it impossible not to bemoan the absence ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1888)
"Yet Landor, a severe crit ic, thought ' Little Nell" equal to any character in
fiction, and Jeffrey, the despiser of sentimentalise!, declared that there ..."
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