felicitate
Americanverb (used with object)
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to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
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Archaic. to make happy.
adjective
verb
Other Word Forms
- felicitator noun
- unfelicitated adjective
- unfelicitating adjective
Etymology
Origin of felicitate
First recorded in 1620–30; from Late Latin fēlīcitātus “made happy” (past participle of fēlīcitāre ); 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
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
Quick to felicitate the new champion was Rev. Gustave Purificato, the priest under whose wing he learned to fight in a Herkimer, N. Y. church basement.
From Time Magazine Archive
Officials swarmed in to pump his hand, felicitate him, lead him out of the office through rooms filled with craning clerks, staring stenographers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Permit me, sir, to felicitate you upon the extreme prowess of the British army.”
From Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Madison, Lucy Foster
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