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
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
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
He paused, then added deferentially: “Of course, I am better prepared now to felicitate him—since I have seen you.”
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford
Piety hallows the dwelling which it inhabits, and felicitates as well as sanctifies the heart, the family, and the city which it pervades.
From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Francis Augustus Cox
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
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
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
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
His retiring superior felicitated him, hoped he would serve out the five years left before his retirement.
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
Pope Pius felicitated the Premier on his escape.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ellis heartily felicitated herself upon every occasion, by which she could lessen obligations of which she now felt the full weight, and, with the utmost alacrity, took her harp.
From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
Jews felicitating them on Rosh Hashana observances marking the New Year 5722.
From Time Magazine Archive
And he will send off dispatches felicitating his chief on having got that fortress off their hands, together with all the worry and expense it has been to them.
From Idle Ideas in 1905 by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
Passing the hours thus, and felicitating ourselves upon the complete success of the voyage, we were in the happiest humor, and amiably awaited our next experience.
From Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska by Charles Warren Stoddard
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
"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
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