in an affectionate or loving manner (`sweet' is sometimes
a poetic or informal variant of `sweetly'); "Susan Hayward plays the wife sharply and sweetly"; "how sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank"- Shakespeare; "talking sweet to each other" Synonym(s):sweetly, sweet
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sweetly \Sweet"ly\, adv. [AS. sw[c7]tlice.]
In a sweet manner.
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