felicitation
noun
an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
self-felicitation
-
a word derived from
felicitation.
Example Sentences
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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 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
Only when washing for dinner did he remember with certain self-felicitation that even his mother had noticed nothing.
From The Adventures of Bobby Orde by Worth Brehm
Mackenzie saw him blend into the gloom of early morning with a feeling of self-felicitation on his act of yesterday.
From The Flockmaster of Poison Creek by P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman) Ivory
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
