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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

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

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

Yet I can't but felicitate our native land that such magnificent experiments in education go on among us.

From Notes of a Son and Brother by Henry James

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

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

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

The married woman felicitates herself greatly, unless a tall daughter of nine or ten walks abroad at her side.

From The Spinster Book by Myrtle Reed

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

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

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

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

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

The señor is to be felicitated on his escape.

From The Dust of Conflict by Harold Bindloss

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Me, I will have the air of felicitating myself that I am alive.

From The Incomplete Amorist by E. (Edith) Nesbit

He had just reached the corner of Murray-street, and was felicitating himself that the troubles of the day were over, when he found his progress checked by a strong hand fastened upon his collar.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various

In an important sense, you may preach the unsearchable riches of Christ to the nations, thereby becoming a coadjutor in a work, the sublimest of heaven and the most felicitating to man.

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

Other listeners were crowding upon them now, commending the fire-tipped words, felicitating the man with pretty gesture and soft speech, patronising him for the Parthenon and his country and her art.

From Mr. Achilles by Jennette Lee