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ral reflections; containing a moral reflection; didactic. [Obsoles.] Nay, ev'n each moral sentimental stroke, Where not the character, but poet, spoke, He lopped, as foreign to his chaste design, Nor spared a useless, though a golden line. Whitehead.

The quality of being sentimental; the character or behavior of a sentimentalist; sentimentality.

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

The quality or state of being sentimental.

To regard in a sentimental manner; as, to sentimentalize a subject.

In a sentimental manner.

Of nature of a presentiment; foreboding. [R.] Coleridge.

narrative poem, adapted for recitation or singing; as, the ballad of Chevy Chase; esp., a sentimental or romantic poem in short stanzas.

A roundabout procedure; a circumlocution. He had neither time nor temper for sentimental circumvolutions. Beaconsfield.

To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection; to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner. [Colloq.]

iously, as tears or words; weakly and unreservedly demonstrative in matters of affection; sentimental. [Colloq.]

Weakly; sentimentally; effusively. [Colloq.]

The adoration or worship of woman. The sentimental gyneolatry of chivalry, which was at best but skin- deep. Lowell.

Affectedly pensive; languidly sentimental. -- Lack`a*dai"si*cal*ly, adv.

Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly. "Maudlin eyes." Dryden. "Maudlin eloquence." Roscommon. "A maudlin poetess." Pope. "Maudlin crowd." Southey.

Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious. J. H. Newman.

Like a miss; prim; affected; sentimental. -- Miss"ish*ness, n.

Silly; weakly sentimental. [Colloq.] G. Eliot.

Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and effusive; weakly sentimental. She 's not mushy, but her heart is tender. G. Eliot.

Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty. Macaulay.