sweetheartedly

comparative more sweetheartedly · superlative most sweetheartedly

1. alternativeAlternative form of sweet-heartedly.

   With which Lyfe of the vpꝛight Beeing of the Lone‘^([sic – meaning Loue]) / God hath ſhewed Mercy on vs / to the end that we ſhoulde liue loueingly, ſweetheartedly, and peaceably therin / vnder the Obedience of the Loue.

   [1575?], H[enry] N[icholis], translated by [Christopher Vitell], “The Seuenth Epistle. A True Iudgment or Sentence / Proceeding Out of the Seruice of Loue […]”, in Epistolæ HN. The Principall Epistles of HN, […], [Cologne]: [N. Bohmberg], →OCLC, chapter VII, pages 158–159

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   […] the way they went up, under tails and threading tormentors, shunning the startraps and slipping in sliders, risking a runway, ruing reveals, from Elder Arbor to La Puiree, eskipping the clockback, crystal in carbon, sweetheartedly.

   1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part III, page 579

   “Michel and Jean will be assisting today.” The tailor’s eyes hover at my chin. Sweat from his hair drips just above my upper lip, he wears a fruity hair mouse. “Are you ready, Sweetheart?” I don’t want to respond to him: what is “ready?”. But my Second, the me I’ve learned to keep specially for answering sweetheartedly, says yes. I close my eyes and wait.

   2007, Miah Arnold, “Snap”, in Kathleen Volk Miller, Marion Wrenn, editors, Painted Bride Quarterly: Printed Annual 4, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 291