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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

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

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

Yet, alas! if we carry our thoughts farther, how little may we have to felicitate ourselves on in the pictured contrast?

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 by Various

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)

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 Derbyshire, Charles E.

France felicitates herself on the brilliant success of her experiment, sends over small groups of immigrants and occupies herself with projects of vast prospective value.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various

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)

The bridegroom goes to bring his retinue to escort the bride home, and St. Bris felicitates himself for bringing about this union which wipes out the disgrace of Raoul's refusal.

From Stars of the Opera by Wagnalls, Mabel

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

His retiring superior felicitated him, hoped he would serve out the five years left before his retirement.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

And he called to Pukkie, who was following Captain Fergus about like a pet dog; and Pukkie came, and Bobby felicitated him upon his promotion.

From The Clammer and the Submarine by Hopkins, William John

Jews felicitating them on Rosh Hashana observances marking the New Year 5722.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Torrey, Bradford

Angel-like, it would send forth spontaneously the felicitating streams which the Gospel appoints.

From The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character by Clark, Sereno D.

The duty of this reassurance devolved on me, but the complicated system of telephoning spared me the torture of felicitating her.

From The Portal of Dreams by Buck, Charles Neville

"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 Roe, Edward Payson