sentiment
/ˈsɛn.tɪ.mənt/ noun C1- A general thought, feeling, or sense. · The sentiment emerged that we were acting too soon.
- Feelings, especially tender feelings, as apart from reason or judgment, or of a weak or foolish kind. · Near-synonyms: feels; maudlinness· Good decision-making is not governed by mere sentiment.
Plural sentiments
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Thus all my opinions—I will not say public, but private—are confined to these three sentiments,—I love my father, I respect M.
de Villefort insignificant, or else dictated by venal ambition.” These words were an allusion to the sentiments which the minister of police had uttered with so much confidence an hour before.
Every idea that had been brought forward by the housekeeper was favourable to his character; and as she stood before the canvas, on which he was represented, and fixed his eyes upon herself, she thought of his regard with a deeper sentiment of gratitude than it had ever raised before: she remembered its warmth, and softened its impropriety of expression.
There was no silly sentiment in Anne’s ideas concerning Gilbert.
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