felicitation
noun
an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
self-felicitation
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a word derived from
felicitation.
Example Sentences
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And then the colonels and others broke off their self-felicitation to join the forward mob in the front of the room, and press their congratulations upon Joe.
From The Bondboy by George W. (George Washington) Ogden
A library has no especial reason for self-felicitation simply because it distributes a large number of books.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Arthur Elmore Bostwick
The first one to appear was the banker, rubbing his hands in a way that suggested a habit of complacency and self-felicitation.
From A Day of Fate by Edward Payson Roe
It is the habit of our New England towns to celebrate their own worthies and their own deeds on occasions like this, with more or less of rhetorical gratitude and self-felicitation.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The major saw that there was a good deal of self-felicitation in the expression of Mike's visage, and he demanded an explanation in more direct terms.
From Wyandotte by James Fenimore Cooper
