sentimentalize
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sentimental + -ize.
Verb
[edit]sentimentalize (third-person singular simple present sentimentalizes, present participle sentimentalizing, simple past and past participle sentimentalized)
- (transitive) To give a sentimental feel to.
- Let us not sentimentalize things just because they are old. Getting all dewy-eyed about it because it was started in the 17th century doesn't make sense when we're talking about the town dump.
- (intransitive) To think or act in a sentimental manner; to get sentimental.
- 1857, Charles Kingsley, “(please specify the page)”, in Two Years Ago, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:
- he learnt to sentimentalize over cathedrals and monasteries , pictures and statues , saints and kaisers
References
[edit]- “sentimentalize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.