felicitate

Example Sentences

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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

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

Quick to felicitate the new champion was Rev. Gustave Purificato, the priest under whose wing he learned to fight in a Herkimer, N. Y. church basement.

From Time Magazine Archive

With one exception, they were all on hand to welcome and felicitate the same person, Explorer Donald B. MacMillan, whose stout auxiliary schooners were nearing the harbor after a summer in the Arctic.

From Time Magazine Archive

For "affluence of the world's goods," Isaac Norris, writing from Philadelphia, could felicitate Jonathan Dickinson, "knowing both thyself and dear wife have hearts and souls fit to use them."

From Our Philadelphia by Pennell, Elizabeth Robins