felicitate
Americanverb (used with object)
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felicitates,
present (3rd person singular)
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felicitated,
past participle, past
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felicitating
present participle
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to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
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Archaic. to make happy.
adjective
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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felicitatesimple
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felicitatessimple
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have felicitatedperfect
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has felicitatedperfect
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am felicitatingprogressive
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are felicitatingprogressive
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is felicitatingprogressive
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have been felicitatingperfect progressive
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has been felicitatingperfect progressive
Past
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felicitatedsimple
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had felicitatedperfect
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was felicitatingprogressive
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were felicitatingprogressive
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had been felicitatingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of felicitate
First recorded in 1620–30; from Late Latin fēlīcitātus “made happy” (past participle of fēlīcitāre ); see felicity, -ate 1
Example Sentences
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Thousands of people attended Sunday's event, which was held to felicitate a prominent social activist.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2023
Wherever the big British bird alighted for a few minutes to leave a passenger or pick up mail, in popped a Briton to felicitate and annoy King Albert.
From Time Magazine Archive
As one Socialist & Republican to another, he dashed down to Madrid to felicitate the new Socialist & Republican Government of Spain.
From Time Magazine Archive
With one exception, they were all on hand to welcome and felicitate the same person, Explorer Donald B. MacMillan, whose stout auxiliary schooners were nearing the harbor after a summer in the Arctic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet I can't but felicitate our native land that such magnificent experiments in education go on among us.
From Notes of a Son and Brother by Henry James
He begins by flattery; he felicitates you on your choice of the best picture in the room—the one that has been ‘universally admired by critics and collectors.’
From Masques & Phases by Robert Ross
France felicitates herself on the brilliant success of her experiment, sends over small groups of immigrants and occupies herself with projects of vast prospective value.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various
He moreover felicitates himself upon the fact that his conciliatory course gained him votes.
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson
It was useless to explain that smallness sometimes renders a thing inconvenient, and this young man, doubtless, still felicitates himself upon his intimate acquaintance with that commodious pocket dictionary.
From Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking by John Hendricks Bechtel
We say one felicitates himself; tho to congratulate oneself, which is less natural, is becoming prevalent.
From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by James Champlin Fernald
Pope Pius felicitated the Premier on his escape.
From Time Magazine Archive
His retiring superior felicitated him, hoped he would serve out the five years left before his retirement.
From Time Magazine Archive
To a friend who felicitated him on his appointment, he snapped: "Say, anyone who congratulates me on this job is crazy!"
From Time Magazine Archive
Week prior, to 50,000 enthusiastic Democrats in Little Rock, Ark., Preacher Williams' home, Franklin D. Roosevelt had felicitated himself on the opportunity "to enjoy the kindness and the courtesy of true Arkansas hospitality."
From Time Magazine Archive
As a disciplinary design he felicitated himself as having hit upon the most humiliating and distasteful position in Keno.
From They of the High Trails by Hamlin Garland
Jews felicitating them on Rosh Hashana observances marking the New Year 5722.
From Time Magazine Archive
And Winkie, shaking his mane, as if felicitating himself that the disagreeable task was over, started off with much satisfaction.
From Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir by Mary Catherine Crowley
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
Angel-like, it would send forth spontaneously the felicitating streams which the Gospel appoints.
From The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character by Sereno D. Clark
The girls in their song have been felicitating themselves that if they are zealous at their spinning their lovers will give them the golden earnings they bring home from the south.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell
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