felicitation

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Geetha P was travelling from the southern state of Kerala to national capital Delhi to attend a felicitation function for winners of the Florence Nightingale award for nurses.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2022

Back in the last century only the shoe fabricator or the shoe designer would have been eligible for that kind of felicitation.

From Slate • Aug. 22, 2012

Prize ray of sunshine in the Air Ministry's findings: felicitation of Captain Alderson for heading doggedly for Bermuda, once he was in trouble, instead of turning back to Port Washington.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is certain that Ellen Terry, toward the end of her life, sent messages of felicitation to U. S. admirers.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was nothing for it now but to let myself patiently be dragged about by them, after I had muttered something, that might as well have been taken for a malediction as a felicitation.

From The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. I (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors by Various