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
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
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 myself on a mistake which promises to result so happily.”
From Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
He felicitates himself that the labor will be light, since the material is so abundant and he is to write only for amateurs.
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas
Probably it felicitates itself upon its shrewdness, and pities the poor estate of its defenseless neighbors.
From The Foot-path Way by Bradford Torrey
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
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
He begins by flattery; he felicitates you on your choice of the best picture in the room—the one that has been ‘universally admired by critics and collectors.’
From Masques & Phases by Robert Ross
His retiring superior felicitated him, hoped he would serve out the five years left before his retirement.
From Time Magazine Archive
This epistle, while neither defining nor interpreting the Monroe Doctrine, felicitated Costa Rica in glowing terms, and suavely referred her to the U. S. State Department for further information.
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
James A. Farley was castigated for making "a spoilsman's happy hunting ground of the Postal Department," which in turn was felicitated in an adjoining column for "a swell job on its bonus bond deliveries."
From Time Magazine Archive
Concealing some boys in a wood, he got up a mock battle with them, and at its end congratulated the troops on their valor and felicitated himself on his success.
From Historic Tales, Volume 11 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris
Jews felicitating them on Rosh Hashana observances marking the New Year 5722.
From Time Magazine Archive
Did it recognize smaller butterflies—the white and the yellow, and even the diminutive "copper"—as poor relations; felicitating itself, meanwhile, upon its own superior size, its brilliant orange-red eye-spots, and its gorgeous tails?
From A Rambler's lease by Bradford Torrey
The citizens of the United States were felicitating their brothers across the water upon the achievement of so desirable a result.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various
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
"My thought just then was that I should prize your friendship above any other woman's love, and I had been felicitating myself that Stella Wildmere would never have the right to criticise the fact."
From A Young Girl's Wooing by Edward Payson Roe
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