a. [f. SWEET a. + HEART sb. + -ED2.] Of sweet disposition. Hence Sweetheartedness.
1850. Tennyson, In Mem., xcvi. You say, but with no touch of scorn, Sweet-hearted, you, You tell me, doubt is Devil-born.
1865. Swinburne, Chastelard, IV. i. 163. Soft hearts would weep and weep and let men die For very mercy and sweet-heartedness.