"smilingly" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1589, George Puttenham, chapter 8, in The Arte of English Poesie",
          "text": "But me thinks at these words I heare some smilingly say, I would be loath to lacke liuing of my own till the Prince gaue me a maner of new Elme for my riming […]",
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          "text": "1753, Samuel Richardson, The History of Sir Charles Grandison in a Series of Letters, London: William Miller, 1811, Volume II, Letter 28, p. 279,\nHe looked smilingly serious."
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          "ref": "1816, John Keats, Sleep and Poetry",
          "text": "Lo! how they murmur, laugh, and smile, and weep:\nSome with upholden hand and mouth severe;\nSome with their faces muffled to the ear\nBetween their arms; some, clear in youthful bloom,\nGo glad and smilingly athwart the gloom;\nSome looking back, and some with upward gaze;\nYes, thousands in a thousand different ways\nFlit onward […]",
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          "ref": "1909, R. Austin Freeman, “The Man with the Nailed Shoes”, in John Thorndyke’s Cases",
          "text": "[…] Thorndyke, having unstrapped the hamper with as much care as if it contained a collection of priceless porcelain, bore it tenderly up to his bedroom; whence he appeared, after a considerable interval, smilingly apologetic for the delay.",
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        "In a smiling manner; with a smile."
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          "ref": "1589, George Puttenham, chapter 8, in The Arte of English Poesie",
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          "text": "1753, Samuel Richardson, The History of Sir Charles Grandison in a Series of Letters, London: William Miller, 1811, Volume II, Letter 28, p. 279,\nHe looked smilingly serious."
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          "text": "Lo! how they murmur, laugh, and smile, and weep:\nSome with upholden hand and mouth severe;\nSome with their faces muffled to the ear\nBetween their arms; some, clear in youthful bloom,\nGo glad and smilingly athwart the gloom;\nSome looking back, and some with upward gaze;\nYes, thousands in a thousand different ways\nFlit onward […]",
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        "In a smiling manner; with a smile."
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