Definition of sweetness and light
1
: a harmonious combination of beauty and enlightenment viewed as a hallmark of culture
2a
: amiable reasonableness of disposition
they were all sweetness and light
b
: an untroubled or harmonious state or condition
but all was not sweetness and light
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The first known use of sweetness and light was in 1869
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