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- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of sweet-heartedness.
LOVED Loveliness hath not in ugliness / Dissolvéd all: for Loveliness in thee / Doth dwell. Sweetheartedness will ever be / The nectar Beauty craves, and Love not less / Thy lovingness.
1919, Elise Pumpelly Cabot, “[Sonnet] XIV”, in Arizona and Other Poems, New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Company […], →OCLC, page 962 more examples
The courtesies and cleverness that we find needful in wooing the regard of the outside world are hallowed by some particular charm from the skies when they are used not of necessity but out of sheer sweetheartedness at home, sweet home.
1904 June 16, Fadette [pseudonym], “Your Corner”, in The Chicago Daily Tribune, volume LXIII, number 144, Chicago, Ill., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 9, column 4O my daughter, God has shown you a great mercy in bringing back your heart to a gracious forbearance with your neighbour, and in having cast the holy balm of sweetheartedness towards others into the wine of your zeal.
1909 [1619 December 29 (Gregorian calendar)], Francis de Sales, translated by [Henry Benedict] Mackey, “Letter II. To a Superioress of the Visitation. [Mother Favre?]”, in Library of St. Francis de Sales. […], 4th edition, volume IV (Letters to Persons in Religion. […]), London: Burns & Oates; New York, N.Y.; […]: Benziger Brothers, →OCLC, book VI (Letters for Various Festivals), page 404
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