felicitate

Example Sentences

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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

As one Socialist & Republican to another, he dashed down to Madrid to felicitate the new Socialist & Republican Government of Spain.

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

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

"I felicitate you, Se�or Colon, on the glorious termination of this siege, and rejoice that you are here to witness it, as I had heard affairs of magnitude had called you to another country."

From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by Cooper, J. Fenimore