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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

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

But at the same time it is only common sense to felicitate ourselves that these methods of the past have been outgrown, and better methods substituted.

From How to See a Play by Sir Richard Francis Burton

That poet, with frequent repetition, felicitates himself that age has not deprived him of his skill in it.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales by Ambrose Bierce

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

If she can pay off fifty or five hundred—in the time that she would give to one, she felicitates herself on her clever management.

From The Life Radiant by Lilian Whiting

Pliny, the naturalist, felicitates the Romans on having been for nearly six hundred years free from the brood of doctors.

From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by John Augustine Zahm

Like a rejected lover making merry at the wedding of his rival, the President felicitates himself hugely over the late Presidential election.

From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858 by Abraham Lincoln

But the Tokyo Yomiuri last week felicitated the Commonwealth "especially because the Philippines can easily be reached by air from Japan and the prospects of Japanese-Philippine trade are bright."

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

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

All went well, the Saxons were to all appearance in a state of peaceful satisfaction, and Charles felicitated himself that he had finally added Saxony to his empire.

From Historical Tales, Vol 5 (of 15) The Romance of Reality, German by Charles Morris

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Some people are felicitating themselves that the strike has been suppressed, but the safety valve has been screwed down, that's all.

From The Pullman Boycott A Complete History of the R.R. Strike by W. F. Burns

The girls in their song have been felicitating themselves that if they are zealous at their spinning their lovers will give them the golden earnings they bring home from the south.

From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell

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