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
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
Permit me in turn to felicitate you on the happy repossession of your City.
From "Evacuation Day", 1783 Its Many Stirring Events: with recollections of Capt. John Van Arsdale by James Riker
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
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
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
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
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
Producer Sheehan felicitated the new management, said he had no plans except a holiday abroad.
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
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
Rye felicitated its venerable town clerk on his 83 years and his 58th term in office.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mrs. Milbourne then again felicitated Amanda on being so fortunate as to have Miss Heathcote to pass the evening with her.
From Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners by Eliza Leslie
Jews felicitating them on Rosh Hashana observances marking the New Year 5722.
From Time Magazine Archive
I wish to have the honour of felicitating her infinite happiness, and I have taken the liberty of bringing her an old family jewel for her acceptance.”
From The Dew of Their Youth by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
The duty of this reassurance devolved on me, but the complicated system of telephoning spared me the torture of felicitating her.
From The Portal of Dreams by Charles Neville Buck
At the moment we are felicitating ourselves—or, is it merely confusing ourselves?—over the revolution in Russia.
From Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography by Henry Watterson
When the family were felicitating each other on his escape, he pleasantly observed, 'A poor prize had they obtained it—an old dying man!'
From The True Story Book by Andrew Lang
