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sentimentalize (三人称単数 現在形 sentimentalizes, 現在分詞 sentimentalizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 sentimentalized)

1. (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.

2. (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

参照

• “sentimentalize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.