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
Her book, Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral, was published in 1773, brought a letter of felicitation from George Washington, went through 15 editions.
From Time Magazine Archive
After posing indoors for other lensmen, Churchill heard a game try at felicitation from one.
From Time Magazine Archive
"It is as I imagined, Judith," said Prudence, calmly—and she withdrew her hands, with a touch of maidenly pride, perhaps, from what she could not but imagine to be a kind of felicitation.
From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black
Barbados snipped its link to the monarchy and became fully independent last year, to felicitations from Elizabeth and Charles.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 25, 2022
Before hanging up, he stopped himself from uttering the felicitations typical in Russia this time of year.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2022
India offered no felicitations to Beijing on the centenary celebrations of the Chinese Communist Party last week which Indian media described as another sign of its unhappiness.
From Reuters ● Jul. 6, 2021
In this opening episode of the 10th season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, belated felicitations join soft scones, wobbly tables and human bowls borrowed by dogs as the latest prompts for Larry David’s raging misanthropy.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 30, 2020
The justice or the injustice, the taste or the vulgarity of these moralizings, of these felicitations, may not concern us here.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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The Age of Innocence
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