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
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
“I felicitate myself on a mistake which promises to result so happily.”
From Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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 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
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
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
Rye felicitated its venerable town clerk on his 83 years and his 58th term in office.
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
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
"You at any rate, sir, have sense," the Collector felicitated him and turned to the Chief Magistrate.
From Lady Good-for-Nothing by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Jews felicitating them on Rosh Hashana observances marking the New Year 5722.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the moment we are felicitating ourselves--or, is it merely confusing ourselves?--over the revolution in Russia.
From Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography by Henry Watterson
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
Me, I will have the air of felicitating myself that I am alive.
From The Incomplete Amorist by E. (Edith) Nesbit
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 Charles Neville Buck
