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
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
As one Socialist & Republican to another, he dashed down to Madrid to felicitate the new Socialist & Republican Government of Spain.
From Time Magazine Archive
To felicitate is to pronounce one happy or wish one joy; to congratulate is to express hearty sympathy in his joys or hopes.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
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 Calvin Thomas
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 O. E. (Osgood Eaton) Fuller
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
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 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 Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson
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
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
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
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
He felicitated Perth and Western Australia generally upon their wonderful progress, of which much had been achieved within the memory of the present generation.
From Down Under With the Prince by Sara Jeannette Duncan
Jews felicitating them on Rosh Hashana observances marking the New Year 5722.
From Time Magazine Archive
"My thought just then was that I should prize your friendship above any other woman's love, and I had been felicitating myself that Stella Wildmere would never have the right to criticise the fact."
From A Young Girl's Wooing by Edward Payson Roe
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 Alexandre Dumas père
When we reach some great good, long desired, we begin by felicitating ourselves.
From The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Thomas Paine
Did it recognize smaller butterflies—the white and the yellow, and even the diminutive "copper"—as poor relations; felicitating itself, meanwhile, upon its own superior size, its brilliant orange-red eye-spots, and its gorgeous tails?
From A Rambler's lease by Bradford Torrey
