felicitate
verb (used with object)
to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
are felicitating
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present progressiveof felicitate.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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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
Our sanitary reformers, also, are felicitating themselves on the spread of their principles to the West, seeing that the first Baths for the People were opened in New York a few weeks since.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852 by William Chambers
At the moment we are felicitating ourselves--or, is it merely confusing ourselves?--over the revolution in Russia.
From Marse Henry, Complete An Autobiography by Henry Watterson
Some people are felicitating themselves that the strike has been suppressed, but the safety valve has been screwed down, that's all.
From The Pullman Boycott A Complete History of the R.R. Strike by W. F. Burns
