congratulate
verb (used with object)
to express pleasure to (a person), as on a happy occasion.
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And yet here was the author, the author himself, the veritable and only genuine author, going about his daily business unhonoured, unsung, uncongratulated, even unnoticed!
From A Great Man A Frolic by Arnold Bennett