felicitates
- present tense form of felicitate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Probably it felicitates itself upon its shrewdness, and pities the poor estate of its defenseless neighbors.
From The Foot-path Way by Torrey, Bradford
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 Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)
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 Fernald, James Champlin
How complacently he felicitates himself upon the assumption that modern times present nothing like this.
From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by Fuller, O. E. (Osgood Eaton)
Pliny, the naturalist, felicitates the Romans on having been for nearly six hundred years free from the brood of doctors.
From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine
