felicitate
verb (used with object)
to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
were 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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When the family were felicitating each other on his escape, he pleasantly observed, 'A poor prize had they obtained it—an old dying man!'
From The True Story Book by Andrew Lang
The citizens of the United States were felicitating their brothers across the water upon the achievement of so desirable a result.
From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 by Various
