smilinglyadv.
a. In a smiling manner; with a smile or smiles.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > smiling > [adverb]
smilinglyc1500
c1500 Three Kings' Sons (1895) 138 Than seide he smylyngly [etc.].
1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 44 She began thus smilinglie to assault him.
1624 Ld. Kensington Let. 31 Aug. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. III. 174 ‘Nay then,’ smilingly quoth I, ‘your Majestie will [etc.]’.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 18 His Feet,..he often pulling up into his Cott or Couch, would smilingly cross them.
1770 H. Brooke Fool of Quality V. xvii. 222 He smilingly shook hands with all the domestics.
1828 T. Moore Swiss Air i He Into his bark leaped smilingly.
1883 Contemp. Rev. 43 40 The Queen looks smilingly around her as of old.
b. transferred. Pleasantly, agreeably, cheerfully.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [adverb]
sweetlyc900
queemlyOE
lustly971
winlyc1000
sootlya1125
to (a person's) queemc1175
lustilya1225
avenantlya1375
pleasinglya1398
queema1400
beinc1400
farrandlyc1400
pleasantlyc1400
pleasantlya1425
queemfullyc1425
thankfullyc1480
greablyc1500
dulcely1508
dulcea1525
pleasant1553
agreeably?1567
pleasurably1580
sugarly1587
flattering1597
sweet1597
attractively1640
well-pleasingly1645
welcomely1646
flatteringly1661
relishingly1677
satisfyingly1743
sweetsome1799
smilingly1806
dulcetly1810
gratifyingly1822
honeyedly1832
enjoyably1877
suavely1883
congenially1884
a fair treat1884
the mind > emotion > pleasure > cheerfulness > [adverb]
gladlyc900
blithec1000
merryOE
blithelyc1175
cheerly1546
cheerily1559
cheerfully1560
heartsomely1637
genially1751
good-humouredly1753
smilingly1806
sunnily1817
riantly1821
sunnily1828
blithesomely1858
blithefully1864
1806 W. Wordsworth Horn Egremont Castle 70 Bold Hubert lives in glee: Months and years went smilingly.
1846 H. G. Robinson Odes of Horace ii. vi Most smilingly on me that nook, Beyond all others, seems to look.
1858 E. Bulwer-Lytton What will he do with It? i. iv How smilingly the stream flows on.
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