Word Finder - sentiment

definition

A general thought, feeling, or sense.

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The sentiment emerged that we were acting too soon.

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Feelings, especially tender feelings, as apart from reason or judgment, or of a weak or foolish kind.

In the still, dark world in which I lived there was no strong sentiment or tenderness.

One sentiment, fear for his life, possessed his whole being.

But the particularistic sentiment continued to grow.

During the Civil War it was held continuously by the Unionists, but local sentiment was bitterly divided.

But questions of sentiment, shop-feeling and trade customs invariably play an important part.

Her brow furrowed at the odd sentiment.

The growth of a wider patriotic sentiment must depend on the spread of popular education; certainly up to 1908 no appreciable progress had been made in this direction.

Many Tiffany engagement gifts can be engraved with initials, dates, names, or a special sentiment.

He remained, however, loyal in sentiment to the house of Savoy, and, after the restoration of the king of Sardinia in 1814, he continued in the public service.

This sentiment fully encapsulates the essence of the band.

Hallmark, a company known worldwide for putting sentiment to paper, first crafted holiday ornaments in 1973.

The village became a station on the Underground Railway, and an important centre of anti-slavery sentiment.

If you plan to create a unique Christmas card for your business to send to a variety of clients, for example, you may want to keep the sentiment light and secular.

For a modern greeting, you will either need to be creative and write your own verses, or put a new twist on an old sentiment.

While it is nice to hear that your love is similar to a flower, it is not as nice a sentiment if it doesn't feel real.

She should never feel pressured by you to return the sentiment.

But if differed from the old patriciate in this, that, while the privileges of the old patriciate rested on law, or perhaps rather on immemorial custom, the privileges of the new nobility rested wholly on a sentiment of which men could remember the beginning.

He had already, in 1859, as the result of a visit to Budapest, made certain modifications in the Bach system by way of concession to Magyar sentiment, and in 1861 he had had an interview with Dek, during which, though unconvinced by that statesmans arguments, he had at least assured himself of his loyalty.

The latter would, indeed, be gradually affected; and accordingly we have observed a change in the policy of the law, indicating a change in sentiment with respect to the slave class, which does not appear to have been at all due to Christian teaching.

The strongholds of these heretical opinions were the great towns, the centres of civilization, because there the growing sentiment of municipal independence, and the rise of a burgher class through commerce, created a spirit of criticism which was dissatisfied with the worldly lives of the clergy and their undue influence in affairs.

Separatism was now passing into Congregationalism, 2 both in sentiment and in language.

During the War of Independence patriotic sentiment here was strong and Loyalists were sometimes exiled to Wallingford, where they could have no effective influence.

He did not at first insist on Palestine as the new Jewish home, nor did he attach himself to religious sentiment.

He is a man of the world, of philosophic culture, who accepts much of the influential Platonism of the time but has absorbed little of its positive religious sentiment.

These proclamations on the part of all the Slav peoples of Austria proved that imperial sentiment was more deeply rooted than Austria's enemies had believed.

It endeavours, therefore, to undermine all aspirations of this nature and, its own tendency being essentially international, strives to ensure that national sentiment and national interests shall not find over-zealous champions among the clergy.

At the same time, the repression of idealism and sentiment during the period of " illumination " was amply revenged, and the barren age of reason gave place to Romanticism.

Even then Rousseau did not settle at once in the anomalous but to him charming position of domestic lover to this lady, who, nominally a converted Protestant, was in reality, as many women of her time were, a kind of deist, with a theory of noble sentiment and a practice of libertinism tempered by good nature.

Julie, ou La Nouvelle Heloise, is a novel written in letters describing the loves of a man of low position and a girl of rank, her subsequent marriage to a respectable freethinker of her own station, the mental agonies of her lover, and the partial appeasing of the distresses of the lovers by the influence of noble sentiment and the good offices of a philanthropic Englishman.

Historical and religious sentiment combined with his destestation of all that was tyrannical to inspire him with hatred of the Turk and sympathy with the smaller and subject nationalities of eastern Europe.

As the war proceeded, further declarations of national and anti-Austrian sentiment were made, the most notable being the " Twelfth Night Manifesto," issued at Prague on Jan.

The navy likewise remained national, and of its officers very few went with their states, for the foreign relations of the navy tended to produce a sentiment wider than local.

But his eloquence offended the narrow and cramped particularism of those little democratic cities, deaf to the sentiment of the common interest.

Shelley in Triumph of Life, 201 seq., wrote, "And if the spark with which Heaven lit my spirit Had been with proper nutriment supplied," but the printed editions made it "sentiment."

Some years previously he had expressed his conviction that "one of the chief needs of the age was to make inroad after the alien, to bring in the votaries of fashion, of literature, of sentiment, of policy and of rank, who are content in their several idolatries to do without piety to God and love to Him whom He hath sent"; and, with an abruptness which must have produced on him at first an effect almost astounding, he now had the satisfaction of beholding these various votaries thronging to hear from his lips the words of wisdom which would deliver them from their several idolatries and remodel their lives according to the fashion of apostolic times.

He carried out the principle of association into the analysis of the complex emotional states, as the affections, the aesthetic emotions and the moral sentiment, all which he endeavoured to resolve into pleasurable and painful sensations.

The sentiment was echoed throughout Scotland.

As the spirit of rebellion developed the sentiment in favour of colonial union gained in strength.

Again, the religious sentiment of the Veda is half-consciously hostile to the stories.

In 1849 the Illinois legislature demanded that its representatives and senators should vote for the prohibition of slavery in the Mexican cession, but next year this sentiment in Illinois had grown much weaker, and, both there and in Congress, Douglas's name was soon to become identified with the so-called " popular sovereignty " or " squatter sovereignty " theory, previously enunciated by Lewis Cass, by which each territory was to be left to decide for itself whether it should or should not have slavery.

Public sentiment in the North was deeply stirred by the Uncle Ton's Cabin (1852) of Mrs Harriet Beecher Stowe, which, as Senior said, under the disguise of a novel was really a pamphlet against the Fugitive Slave Law.

They also note that sentiment indicators are n't excessively bullish, which has typically meant a market turn is n't imminent.

This is one of those juvenile movies that 's full of goofy slapstick and gooey sentiment.

Do you want to express some sort of sentiment?

This sentiment is easily proven by Colorscience, a brand that claims its products have a positive effect on the skin's condition.

As a symbol of your commitment to these friendships, a graduation poem for a friend could be the prefect sentiment.

A sentiment can be defined as something that brings tender, nostalgic or emotional feelings to a graduating senior.

Giving a graduation sentiment is a message that despite all the hills that have been climbed, the seniors have prevailed and reached the top.

Whether the graduation sentiment is an actual gift, words to the wise, or a gathering of loved ones, the gesture helps take high school students to the next phase of life.

No matter what your denomination, traditional wedding vows can express a wonderful sentiment and affection between a bride and groom.