felicity

Example Sentences

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Hindus believe Hinglaj Mata is one the places where the remains of Sati, the goddess of marital felicity and longevity, fell to earth after she ended her life.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2024

He argued that dirty streets were a welcome sign of prosperity — "a necessary evil, inseparable from the felicity of London."

From Salon • Dec. 26, 2021

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

Preferring verbal felicity to practical wisdom, a character in a Benjamin Disraeli novel quipped, “A majority is always the best repartee.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 3, 2018

He can turn effortlessly from the carnage of war into the felicity of a woman washing her hair in a mountain stream.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy