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

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

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

Though we felicitate ourselves, we sympathize with those who are trembling lest the lot of Boston should be theirs.

From Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Adams, Abigail