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Sentimentalize   Listen
verb
Sentimentalize  v. t.  To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sentimentalize" Quotes from Famous Books



... sentimentalize over the pigeons of St. Mark's, may like to know that they have been settled in the city ever since 877. After the religious services on Palm Sunday, it was anciently the custom of the sacristans of St. Mark's to release doves fettered with fragments of paper, and thus partly disabled ...
— Venetian Life • W. D. Howells

... proofreader; but it is a vigorous, spirited narrative, and the best chronicle of that period in English. Would there were more such histories, even if the writing be not always grammatical. Doctor Howe does not sentimentalize over the ruins of Sparta or Plato's Academy, but he describes Greece as he found it, and its inhabitants as he knew them. He possesses what so many historians lack, and that is the graphic faculty. He writes in a better style than either Motley ...
— Cambridge Sketches • Frank Preston Stearns



Words linked to "Sentimentalize" :   alter, change, sentimentalise, belie, sentimentise, sentimentize



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