felicitate
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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
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
Lieutenant Banning, mopping his brow, stepped forward to felicitate his commanding officer.
From The Argus Pheasant by Beecham, John Charles
How complacently he felicitates himself upon the assumption that modern times present nothing like this.
From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by Fuller, O. E. (Osgood Eaton)
He felicitates himself that the labor will be light, since the material is so abundant and he is to write only for amateurs.
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin
He moreover felicitates himself upon the fact that his conciliatory course gained him votes.
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)
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 Ross, Robert
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 MacDonald, George
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
Rye felicitated its venerable town clerk on his 83 years and his 58th term in office.
From Time Magazine Archive
Producer Sheehan felicitated the new management, said he had no plans except a holiday abroad.
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
The whole cast was excellent, and Sir George Alexander must be felicitated on a very clever production.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, June 13, 1917 by Various
Jews felicitating them on Rosh Hashana observances marking the New Year 5722.
From Time Magazine Archive
The minister and the king exchanged numerous caresses, felicitating each other upon the fortunate chance which had freed France from the inveterate enemy who set all Europe against her.
From The Three Musketeers by Dumas père, Alexandre
"You'll soon be travelling south, I'm thinking, Captain Gar'ner?" called out this worthy, again, in a sort of felicitating way--"Them's your chaps, and they'll set you up."
From The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers by Cooper, James Fenimore
Our sanitary reformers, also, are felicitating themselves on the spread of their principles to the West, seeing that the first Baths for the People were opened in New York a few weeks since.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852 by Chambers, William
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 Watterson, Henry
