Definition of Felicitations

1. Noun. (plural of felicitation) ¹

2. Interjection. congratulations! ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Felicitations

1. felicitation [n] - See also: felicitation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Felicitations

feldspathose
feldspaths
fele
felefold
felicias
felicidal
felicide
felicific
felicific calculus
felicifically
felicitate
felicitated
felicitates
felicitating
felicitation
felicitations (current term)
felicitator
felicitators
felicities
felicitous
felicitously
felicitousness
felicity
felid
felidomancy
felids
feline
feline acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
feline agranulocytosis
feline distemper

Literary usage of Felicitations

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Debates in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, 1917-1918 by Massachusetts Constitutional Convention (1920)
"felicitations AND RESPONSES. JUDGE MORTON'S BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY. ... We extend to him our felicitations and our best wishes for many happy returns of this ..."

2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1807)
"High and low, rich and poor, were all alike permitted to draw near to him with their felicitations ; his happiness was the happiness of ally and the joy ..."

3. Memoirs of Sophia Dorothea, Consort of George I: Chiefly from the Secret by Robert Folkestone Williams (1845)
"EARLY felicitations. ZELLE. Duke George William in a morning-gown, at a dressing-table—Duchess ... Allow me to be the first to offer these felicitations. ..."

4. The Political Debates Between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the by Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Arnold Douglas (1912)
"... with the Administration about the Lecompton Constitution, every speech on that Nebraska Bill was full of his felicitations that we were fust at the end ..."

5. The Letters of Pliny the Consul: With Occasional Remarks by Pliny, William Melmoth (1796)
"... of your indulgence, permitted me to repeat my felicitations, I renew them now on behalf of Accius Sura; ..."

6. History of Napoleon: From the French of M. Laurent de L'Ardeche. With Five by Paul Mathieu Laurent, Horace Vernet (1843)
"Napoleon receives the felicitations of the great bodies of the state. Levy of three hundred and fifty thousand men. Defection of the Prussian General ..."

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