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
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
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
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 Mabel Wagnalls
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
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
Piety hallows the dwelling which it inhabits, and felicitates as well as sanctifies the heart, the family, and the city which it pervades.
From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Francis Augustus Cox
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
To a friend who felicitated him on his appointment, he snapped: "Say, anyone who congratulates me on this job is crazy!"
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
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
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
Ellis heartily felicitated herself upon every occasion, by which she could lessen obligations of which she now felt the full weight, and, with the utmost alacrity, took her harp.
From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
Jews felicitating them on Rosh Hashana observances marking the New Year 5722.
From Time Magazine Archive
Our sanitary reformers, also, are felicitating themselves on the spread of their principles to the West, seeing that the first Baths for the People were opened in New York a few weeks since.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852 by William Chambers
We trust a country worthy of you; where Providence has unfolded a scene as new as it is august, as felicitating as it is unexampled.
From Priestley in America 1794-1804 by Edgar Fahs Smith
The minister and the king exchanged numerous caresses, felicitating each other upon the fortunate chance which had freed France from the inveterate enemy who set all Europe against her.
From The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas père
Passing the hours thus, and felicitating ourselves upon the complete success of the voyage, we were in the happiest humor, and amiably awaited our next experience.
From Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska by Charles Warren Stoddard
