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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

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

To felicitate is to pronounce one happy or wish one joy; to congratulate is to express hearty sympathy in his joys or hopes.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

The Commission, which has taken as its own the decision of the arbiter, approves the idea and felicitates the students on their patriotism and their thirst for knowledge—” “Well?”

From The Reign of Greed by Charles E. Derbyshire

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

We say one felicitates himself; tho to congratulate oneself, which is less natural, is becoming prevalent.

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald

Like a rejected lover making merry at the wedding of his rival, the President felicitates himself hugely over the late Presidential election.

From The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 2: 1843-1858 by Abraham Lincoln

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

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

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

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

His retiring superior felicitated him, hoped he would serve out the five years left before his retirement.

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

She has the air of felicitating herself that she is dead.

From The Incomplete Amorist by E. (Edith) Nesbit

When we reach some great good, long desired, we begin by felicitating ourselves.

From The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Thomas Paine

She concludes, with 'desiring to be informed of our nuptials the moment they are celebrated, that she may be with the earliest in felicitating me on the happy occasion.'

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 by Samuel Richardson

He had just reached the corner of Murray-street, and was felicitating himself that the troubles of the day were over, when he found his progress checked by a strong hand fastened upon his collar.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various