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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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

I hastily join conversation with the child, and inwardly felicitate myself that the gardener is opportunely gone for the key of the house.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Commission, which has taken as its own the decision of the arbiter, approves the idea and felicitates the students on their patriotism and their thirst for knowledge—” “Well?”

From The Reign of Greed by Charles E. Derbyshire

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

Probably it felicitates itself upon its shrewdness, and pities the poor estate of its defenseless neighbors.

From The Foot-path Way by Bradford Torrey

He begins by flattery; he felicitates you on your choice of the best picture in the room—the one that has been ‘universally admired by critics and collectors.’

From Masques & Phases by Robert Ross

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

Members felicitated dressy old James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois on his narrow escape from death from pneumonia in Moscow last autumn.

From Time Magazine Archive

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."

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Rye felicitated its venerable town clerk on his 83 years and his 58th term in office.

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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

Meantime, he had prayed earnestly for his recovery and secretly felicitated himself with the hope of leading him to a rock of refuge,—a tower of defence, which would secure him from sin and sorrow.

From Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick by Mrs. William T. Savage

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

"Though, of course, in a way, I was felicitating myself when I congratulated you."

From Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) by William MacLeod Raine

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

From Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography by Henry Watterson

He had just reached the corner of Murray-street, and was felicitating himself that the troubles of the day were over, when he found his progress checked by a strong hand fastened upon his collar.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various