Definition of "sentiments" []

• Plural form of sentiment. (noun)

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• "There again are the sentiments I have expressed in regard to the Declaration of Independence upon a former occasion, —sentiments which have been put in print and read wherever anybody cared to know what so humble an individual as myself chose to say in regard to it."
• "Those sentiments of love, which fathers and mothers have for their children -- those feelings of affection, which children, with good inclinations, bear towards their parents, are by no means _innate sentiments_; they are nothing more, than the effect of experience, of reflection, of habit, in souls of sensibility."
• "The sentiments he has expressed in a note termed cynical, as well as the misanthropical expressions to be found in his first poems, _are not at all his natural sentiments_. ""