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Antonyms for felicitate

Grammar : Verb
Spell : fi-lis-i-teyt
Phonetic Transcription : fɪˈlɪs ɪˌteɪt

Definition of felicitate

Origin :
  • 1620s, "to render happy;" 1630s, "to reckon happy;" from Latin felicitatus, past participle of felicitare "to make happy," from felicitas "fruitfulness, happiness," from felix (see felicity). Meaning "congratulate" is from 1630s. Related: Felicitated; felicitating.
  • verb congratulate
Example sentences :
  • It will harmonize and felicitate to whatever extent it is diffused.
  • Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. II » by Francis Augustus Cox
  • I felicitate you heartily, sir, on your success, but beg I may be spared the story of it.
  • Extract from : « The Bramleighs Of Bishop's Folly » by Charles James Lever
  • A word to the wise, etc., and let me speedily have occasion to felicitate you in like manner.
  • Extract from : « Social Life » by Maud C. Cooke
  • They should call on her and felicitate her as soon as they have been informed of the affair.
  • Extract from : « The Complete Bachelor » by Walter Germain
  • Having ceased to be your wife, dare I felicitate you on becoming a father?
  • Extract from : « Josephine » by John S. C. Abbott
  • I felicitate you on the superior and lofty aims which have drawn you together.
  • Extract from : « Civilization the Primal Need of the Race » by Alexander Crummell
  • I felicitate myself on a mistake which promises to result so happily.
  • Extract from : « Checkmate » by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
  • I felicitate you for the efforts made and invite you to continue them.
  • Extract from : « The History of Cuba, vol. 3 » by Willis Fletcher Johnson
  • "Let me felicitate you on your forehandedness," Harleston called from the next room.
  • Extract from : « The Cab of the Sleeping Horse » by John Reed Scott
  • My flawed life has that to felicitate upon—that I have not spent it in fat lumps of writing, magazine tales and sex-novels.
  • Extract from : « I, Mary MacLane » by Mary MacLane

Synonyms for felicitate

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