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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

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

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

We felicitate ourselves on possessing or having acquired a useful thing; but we never admire, on that account, either ourselves or the thing that we have just acquired.

From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

It was useless to explain that smallness sometimes renders a thing inconvenient, and this young man, doubtless, still felicitates himself upon his intimate acquaintance with that commodious pocket dictionary.

From Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking by John Hendricks Bechtel

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

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

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

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

From The Foot-path Way by Bradford Torrey

Producer Sheehan felicitated the new management, said he had no plans except a holiday abroad.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

James A. Farley was castigated for making "a spoilsman's happy hunting ground of the Postal Department," which in turn was felicitated in an adjoining column for "a swell job on its bonus bond deliveries."

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

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

"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

Elwood was to take immediate possession, and, all the way across the prairie, was felicitating himself upon the ease and rapidity of his triumph.

From Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States by F.O.C. Darley

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

The citizens of the United States were felicitating their brothers across the water upon the achievement of so desirable a result.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various