felicity

Example Sentences

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Hindus believe Hinglaj Mata is one the places where the remains of Sati, the goddess of marital felicity and longevity, fell to earth after she ended her life.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2024

Serenity, personal growth and felicity may not be seductive topics for a contemporary R&B record.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2022

He argued that dirty streets were a welcome sign of prosperity — "a necessary evil, inseparable from the felicity of London."

From Salon • Dec. 26, 2021

“That may be the chief reason many of us love cats. They possess as their birthright a felicity humans regularly fail to attain.”

From Washington Post • Nov. 24, 2020

In their zeal to purify usage and safeguard the language, they have made it difficult to think clearly about felicity in expression and have muddied the task of explaining the art of writing.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker