felicitate
verb (used with object)
to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
had been felicitating
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past perfect progressiveof felicitate.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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"My thought just then was that I should prize your friendship above any other woman's love, and I had been felicitating myself that Stella Wildmere would never have the right to criticise the fact."
From A Young Girl's Wooing by Edward Payson Roe
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