felicitate
verb (used with object)
to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
was felicitating
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past progressiveof felicitate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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The first was felicitating himself on his sister's escape; the latter received the lesson that teaches prudence a la distance.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII by John Mackay Wilson
He had just reached the corner of Murray-street, and was felicitating himself that the troubles of the day were over, when he found his progress checked by a strong hand fastened upon his collar.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various
Elwood was to take immediate possession, and, all the way across the prairie, was felicitating himself upon the ease and rapidity of his triumph.
From Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States by F.O.C. Darley
"Though, of course, in a way, I was felicitating myself when I congratulated you."
From Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) by William MacLeod Raine
He was felicitating himself, since without an acre of land or a drop of oil he had “declared himself in” on another’s wealth.
From The Law of Hemlock Mountain by Hugh Lundsford
