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Definition of Emotionalize
1. v. t. To give an emotional character to.
Definition of Emotionalize
1. Verb. To give something an emotional quality. ¹
2. Verb. To make an emotional display. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Emotionalize
1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emotionalize
Literary usage of Emotionalize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poet Lore (1905)
"They emotionalize the philosophy they suggest. You do not need to understand the
symbol. You feel the emotion and see the beauty. ..."
2. A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland (1917)
"You can go far if you'll only work. I began too late. I can't emotionalize present
day western life—you can, but you must bend to your desk like a man. ..."
3. Elements of Human Psychology by Howard Crosby Warren (1922)
"... and Disbelief in the American Revolution, and those of the next generation
will emotionalize toward the several nations concerned in the World War. ..."
4. Addresses and Proceedings by National Education Association of the United States, National Teachers' Association (U.S.)., American Normal School Association, Central College Association (1914)
"... such specific centering of cumulative impression upon it as will emotionalize
it and create a permanent desire to apply it; such definite association ..."
5. Literature in the Elementary School by Porter Lander MacClintock (1907)
"The case is different when the teacher of fact happens to find in art, in real
literature, some picture or detail with which to emotionalize and beautify ..."
6. Adolescence and High-school Problems by Ralph W. Pringle (1922)
"The power to appreciate and to emotionalize is far ahead of the ability to give
expression, yet the adolescent is strongly urged to self-expression; ..."
7. A Voice from the Crowd by George Wharton Pepper (1915)
"On the other hand, it is an equally perilous thing to emotionalize religion by
identifying it with mere warmhearted sympathy for the unprivileged. ..."
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