a. (UN-1 7.)
1810. Scott, in Lockhart (1839), III. 228. The despair … gave me a most unsentimental horror for sentimental letters.
1853. C. Brontë, Villette, xxi. Never man had a more unsentimental mother than mine.
1898. Haddon, Stud. Man, xiv. 409. An unsentimental survival of this pretty custom.
Hence Unsentimentality; -mentalize v.; -mentally adv.
1824. Hook, Sayings & Doings, III. 168. Gaieties … calculated … to enliven and unsentimentalize the mind. Ibid., Ser. II. I. 28. The impropriety and unsentimentality of her behaviour. Ibid., xiv. III. 300. She was … most unsentimentally employed in swallowing a very hearty supper.
1837. Lewis, Lett. (1870), 84. For the sake of … unsentimentalizing the cause of the Catholic clergy.
1847. L. Hunt, Men, Women, & B., II. ii. 25. The unsentimentalizing effects of the gallantry of the court of Charles II.
