Antedating of "Sentimental"

[Fred Shapiro]

sentimental (OED 1749)

1741 George Colman _Polly Honeycombe_ Prologue  And then so _sentimental_
is the Stile, So chaste, yet so bewitching all the while!

Fred Shapiro


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