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
As one Socialist & Republican to another, he dashed down to Madrid to felicitate the new Socialist & Republican Government of Spain.
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
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
Since I cannot make myself happy, I will have the glory to felicitate another: and, therefore, I declare, I will reward the fidelity of Don Lopez.
From Dryden's Works Vol. 3 (of 18) Sir Martin Mar-All; The Tempest; An Evening's Love; Tyrannic Love by John Dryden
Pliny, the naturalist, felicitates the Romans on having been for nearly six hundred years free from the brood of doctors.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by John Augustine Zahm
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
He moreover felicitates himself upon the fact that his conciliatory course gained him votes.
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson
Those whom our Lord felicitates are all the children of one family; and everything that can be called blessed or blessing comes of the same righteousness.
From Hope of the Gospel by George MacDonald
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
But the Tokyo Yomiuri last week felicitated the Commonwealth "especially because the Philippines can easily be reached by air from Japan and the prospects of Japanese-Philippine trade are bright."
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
To a friend who felicitated him on his appointment, he snapped: "Say, anyone who congratulates me on this job is crazy!"
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
The strawberry festival that secured his presence felicitated itself upon the fact and always insisted on "just a few words, Mr. Congressman."
From A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West by Hamlin Garland
Jews felicitating them on Rosh Hashana observances marking the New Year 5722.
From Time Magazine Archive
And he will send off dispatches felicitating his chief on having got that fortress off their hands, together with all the worry and expense it has been to them.
From Idle Ideas in 1905 by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
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
"Though, of course, in a way, I was felicitating myself when I congratulated you."
From Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) by William MacLeod Raine
Angel-like, it would send forth spontaneously the felicitating streams which the Gospel appoints.
From The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character by Sereno D. Clark
