SWEETLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sweetly mean? 

• SWEETLY (adverb)
  The adverb SWEETLY has 1 sense:

1. in an affectionate or loving manner ('sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of 'sweetly')

  Familiarity information: SWEETLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWEETLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an affectionate or loving manner ('sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of 'sweetly')

Synonyms:

sweet; sweetly

Context example:

talking sweet to each other

Domain category:

poesy; poetry; verse (literature in metrical form)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Pertainym:

sweet (having a sweet nature befitting an angel or cherub)

 Context examples 

The Professor answered very sweetly:—I only used that name because I was in doubt.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But he repeated sweetly: Some local irritation, ma'am?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At seven o'clock, leaving Marianne still sweetly asleep, she joined Mrs. Jennings in the drawing-room to tea.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

You've behaved sweetly, and I respect you with all my heart, said Jo warmly, as they brushed their hair together late that night.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He thought his love slept sweetly: he finds she is stone dead.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He had never thought that a mere woman's hand could be so sweetly soft.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Selina has entirely given up music—never touches the instrument—though she played sweetly.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

“No, no; the real name,” said Holmes sweetly.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You won’t see anything as sweetly harmonious between good-fortune Jupiter and surprise-a-minute Uranus again until 2024.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I noticed as we talked over his condition, that Maud’s sympathy went out to him more and more; yet I could not but love her for it, so sweetly womanly was it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)