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
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
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
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
I felicitate you for the efforts made and invite you to continue them.
From The History of Cuba, vol. 3 by Willis Fletcher Johnson
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
How complacently he felicitates himself upon the assumption that modern times present nothing like this.
From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by O. E. (Osgood Eaton) Fuller
The married woman felicitates herself greatly, unless a tall daughter of nine or ten walks abroad at her side.
From The Spinster Book by Myrtle Reed
Probably it felicitates itself upon its shrewdness, and pities the poor estate of its defenseless neighbors.
From The Foot-path Way by Bradford Torrey
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
His retiring superior felicitated him, hoped he would serve out the five years left before his retirement.
From Time Magazine Archive
Rye felicitated its venerable town clerk on his 83 years and his 58th term in office.
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
Producer Sheehan felicitated the new management, said he had no plans except a holiday abroad.
From Time Magazine Archive
And he called to Pukkie, who was following Captain Fergus about like a pet dog; and Pukkie came, and Bobby felicitated him upon his promotion.
From The Clammer and the Submarine by William John Hopkins
Jews felicitating them on Rosh Hashana observances marking the New Year 5722.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first was felicitating himself on his sister's escape; the latter received the lesson that teaches prudence a la distance.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII by John Mackay Wilson
The girls in their song have been felicitating themselves that if they are zealous at their spinning their lovers will give them the golden earnings they bring home from the south.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell
Even in that hour of supreme anxiety he could not help felicitating himself on the successful application of pony docility to horsey self-will.
From Twice Bought by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
He came up behind them presently—approaching so close under cover of the fog that he could hear Dan Hicks and Jack Flaherty, both under a dead-slow bell, felicitating each other through their megaphones.
From Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates by Gordon Grant
