sentimental value

collocation in English

meaningsofsentimentalandvalue

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sentimental
adjective
uk
/ˌsen.tɪˈmen.təl/us
/ˌsen.t̬əˈmen.t̬əl/
A sentimental person is strongly influenced by emotional feelings, especially about happy memories of past events or relationships with other people, rather than by careful thought and judgment based ...
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value
noun
uk
/ˈvæl.juː/us
/ˈvæl.juː/
the amount of money that can be received ...
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(Definition ofsentimentalandvaluefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I would expect the potter to respect thesentimentalvalueof the plate, but not to understand it.
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Indeed, the historical andsentimentalvalueof what the nation stands to receive cannot be truly assessed in terms of money.
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It is even possible that company stocks and shares may be ofsentimentalvalue.
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We have all got attached to our own land, and it has a certainsentimentalvalue, which, of course, cannot be assessed in money.
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It is tremendously difficult to judge what may be ofsentimentalvalueto an individual.
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One is willing to sell; the other says that although he is willing to consider the matter the land has asentimentalvalue.
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Most old folk prefer their own independent accommodation where they can enjoy privacy and the possession of their own furniture and objects ofsentimentalvalue.
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Something may have had asentimentalvalueto him, perhaps a picture, and it is discovered that it has a value of £20,000.
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Sentimentalvaluemay well attach especially to articles, but perhaps even to funds of some sort, and hospitals may take insufficient account of that.
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Is he saying that if the article is ofsentimentalvalueto the owner, the charge of theft should not stand?
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Personal letters and small articles ofsentimentalvalueare generally left with the patient.
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They become part of the family, and there is asentimentalvalueabout them.
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It may concern some valuable heirloom—something with moresentimentalvaluethan anything else.
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I believe that the so-called convertibility of a note into specie has only asentimentalvalueunder modern conditions.
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He looks for something to sell, but everything in his house has asentimentalvalue—and what will he get for it from a second-hand dealer?
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He was strongly in favour of many things, including thesentimentalvalue.
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The section goes on to provide: "managers shall have regard to thesentimentalvaluethat any article may have for the patient, or would have but for his mental disorder".
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We should vote against the changes and endeavour to maintain the freedom from taxation of these things that mean so much more than pounds, shillings and pence insentimentalvalue.
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Coupled with the provision on sub-standard wares it applies to many pieces of historical or artistic merit or even ofsentimentalvaluewould be at quite unjustified peril of destruction.
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For some people who are perhaps the only survivors of their families things of this sort may have asentimentalvalue, and indeed far more than that.
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