self-felicitation
- a word derived from felicitation.
Example Sentences
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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 Roe, Edward Payson
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 Ogden, George W. (George Washington)
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 Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)
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 Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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 Cooper, James Fenimore
