felicity
Example Sentences
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Blackhawk’s account of Native Americans over the past five centuries is among five nominees for the Mark Lynton History Prize, a $10,000 award given for work which “combines intellectual distinction with felicity of expression.”
From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2024
In other words, “Luck” takes things that are intangible — in this case, random felicity and affliction — and imagines them as palpable.
From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2022
Neglecting to explore this gives the viewer little reason to witness that struggle beyond the lesson of it; there must be, should be, the counterbalancing representation of felicity, and in large doses.
From Salon • Dec. 16, 2020
As Anne Enright noted years ago, “Hadley, for all the felicity of her prose style, is an immensely subversive writer.”
From The Guardian • Feb. 9, 2019
“What felicity it is to hear a tune again which has made one happy!—If I mistake not that was danced at Weymouth.”
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
Vocabulary lists containing felicity
"The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe
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Grade 11, List 3
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"The Odyssey" by Homer, Books 8–13
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