1.Having, expressing, or containing a sentiment or sentiments; abounding with moral 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."
2.Inclined to sentiment; having an excess of sentiment or sensibility; indulging the sensibilities for their own sake; artificially or affectedly tender; often in a reproachful sense. "A sentimental mind is rather prone to overwrought feeling and exaggerated tenderness."
3.Addressed or pleasing to the emotions only, usually to the weaker and the unregulated emotions.
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