sentimentalist love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who is guided by mere sentiment; a sentimental person; in a better sense, one who regards sentiment as more important than reason, or permits it to predominate over reason.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who has, or affects, sentiment or fine feeling.

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  • noun A person who is sentimental.

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  • noun someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality

Etymologies

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sentimental +‎ -ist

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Examples

  • Ordinary men will always be sentimentalists: for a sentimentalist is simply a man who has feelings and does not trouble to invent a new way of expressing them.

    Movie Review: Battle Beyond the Stars 2008

  • Page 279 he can hardly be called a sentimentalist, as Greeley was, and there is nothing but sentiment - gush and gammon - in the proposed League of Nations.

    "Marse Henry" : an autobiography, 1921

  • LOOKING at Mr. Thackeray’s writings as a whole, he would be more truthfully described as a sentimentalist than as a cynic.

    Criticisms and Interpretations. II. By Doctor John Brown 1917

  • At the risk of being called a sentimentalist, I may say that I do not think I could kill famous people by any method that was not both quick and painless.

    Marge Askinforit Barry Pain 1896

  • 'An honest rough heartiness Mr. Lewes will give you; yet in case you have the misfortune to remark that the heartiness might be quite as honest if it were less rough, would you not run the risk of being termed a sentimentalist or a dreamer?

    Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle Clement King Shorter 1891

  • But he can hardly be called a sentimentalist, as Greeley was, and there is nothing but sentiment -- gush and gammon -- in the proposed

    Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880

  • But he can hardly be called a sentimentalist, as Greeley was, and there is nothing but sentiment -- gush and gammon -- in the proposed

    Marse Henry (Volume 2) An Autobiography Henry Watterson 1880

  • The exquisite and the sentimentalist were the fashion, to be speedily followed, according to the law of reaction, by the boor and the satirist.

    James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury 1876

  • For Burke was himself also, in the subtler sense of the word, a sentimentalist, that is, a man who took what would now be called an aesthetic view of morals and politics.

    Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855

  • The sentimentalist is the spiritual hypochondriac, with whom fancies become facts, while facts are a discomfort because they will not be evaporated into fancy.

    Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855

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  • -- The sentimentalist is he who would enjoy without incurring the immense debtorship for a thing done.

    Joyce, Ulysses, 9

    January 5, 2007