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Thousands of people attended Sunday's event, which was held to felicitate a prominent social activist.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2023

Officials swarmed in to pump his hand, felicitate him, lead him out of the office through rooms filled with craning clerks, staring stenographers.

From Time Magazine Archive

As one Socialist & Republican to another, he dashed down to Madrid to felicitate the new Socialist & Republican Government of Spain.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wherever the big British bird alighted for a few minutes to leave a passenger or pick up mail, in popped a Briton to felicitate and annoy King Albert.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I felicitate you, my child," said the Visconte, kissing her throbbing forehead; "in you the fortunes of your family will be restored—come with me."

From The International Monthly, Vol. II, No. I December 1, 1850 by Various

Those whom our Lord felicitates are all the children of one family; and everything that can be called blessed or blessing comes of the same righteousness.

From Hope of the Gospel by George MacDonald

It was useless to explain that smallness sometimes renders a thing inconvenient, and this young man, doubtless, still felicitates himself upon his intimate acquaintance with that commodious pocket dictionary.

From Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking by John Hendricks Bechtel

France felicitates herself on the brilliant success of her experiment, sends over small groups of immigrants and occupies herself with projects of vast prospective value.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various

If she can pay off fifty or five hundred—in the time that she would give to one, she felicitates herself on her clever management.

From The Life Radiant by Lilian Whiting

Like a rejected lover making merry at the wedding of his rival, the President felicitates himself hugely over the late Presidential election.

From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858 by Abraham Lincoln

Week prior, to 50,000 enthusiastic Democrats in Little Rock, Ark., Preacher Williams' home, Franklin D. Roosevelt had felicitated himself on the opportunity "to enjoy the kindness and the courtesy of true Arkansas hospitality."

From Time Magazine Archive

This epistle, while neither defining nor interpreting the Monroe Doctrine, felicitated Costa Rica in glowing terms, and suavely referred her to the U. S. State Department for further information.

From Time Magazine Archive

To a friend who felicitated him on his appointment, he snapped: "Say, anyone who congratulates me on this job is crazy!"

From Time Magazine Archive

James A. Farley was castigated for making "a spoilsman's happy hunting ground of the Postal Department," which in turn was felicitated in an adjoining column for "a swell job on its bonus bond deliveries."

From Time Magazine Archive

"You at any rate, sir, have sense," the Collector felicitated him and turned to the Chief Magistrate.

From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Jews felicitating them on Rosh Hashana observances marking the New Year 5722.

From Time Magazine Archive

In an important sense, you may preach the unsearchable riches of Christ to the nations, thereby becoming a coadjutor in a work, the sublimest of heaven and the most felicitating to man.

From The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character by Sereno D. Clark

She has the air of felicitating herself that she is dead.

From The Incomplete Amorist by E. (Edith) Nesbit

At the moment we are felicitating ourselves--or, is it merely confusing ourselves?--over the revolution in Russia.

From Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography by Henry Watterson

She concludes, with 'desiring to be informed of our nuptials the moment they are celebrated, that she may be with the earliest in felicitating me on the happy occasion.'

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson