adv. [f. prec.] In a smiling manner; with a smile or smiles.
c. 1500. Three Kings’ Sons, 138. Than seide he smylyngly [etc.].
1590. Greene, Never too late (1600), 38. She began thus smilingly to assault him.
1624. in Ellis, Orig. Lett., I. III. 174. ‘Nay then,’ smilingly quoth I, ‘your Majestie will [etc.].’
1698. Fryer, Acc. E. India & P., 18. His Feet,… he often pulling up into his Cott or Couch, would smilingly cross them.
1760–72. H. Brooke, Fool of Qual. (1809), IV. 117. He smilingly shook hands with all the domestics.
1828. Moore, Swiss Air, i. He Into his bark leaped smilingly.
1883. Contemp. Rev., XLIII. 40. The Queen looks smilingly around her as of old.
b. transf. Pleasantly, agreeably, cheerfully.
1806. Wordsw., 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. Lytton, What will He do? I. iv. How smilingly the stream flows on.
