Definition of "sentimentalize" []

• To imbue or regard with sentiment; be sentimental about. (verb-transitive)
• To behave in a sentimental manner. (verb-intransitive)

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• "I'm not sure that I would use the word sentimentalize, myself."
• "If you, like most Americans, don't know the truth about "your people", you're doomed to perpetuate the crap and sentimentalize the good."
• "And no woman's life should be sacrificed by those whose religious beliefs subordinate her to men, by those who sentimentalize motherhood as divine will or intuition and by those who do not respect her."