Definition of Felicitously

1. Adverb. In a felicitous manner. "A not felicitously chosen word"

Partainyms: Felicitous
Antonyms: Infelicitously

Definition of Felicitously

1. Adverb. In a felicitous manner ¹

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Definition of Felicitously

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Felicitously

felicidal
felicide
felicific
felicific calculus
felicifically
felicitate
felicitated
felicitates
felicitating
felicitation
felicitations
felicitator
felicitators
felicities
felicitous
felicitously (current term)
felicitousness
felicity
felid
felidomancy
felids
feline
feline acquired immunodeficiency syndrome
feline agranulocytosis
feline distemper
feline immunodeficiency virus
feline infectious anaemia
feline infectious enteritis
feline infectious peritonitis
feline leukaemia

Literary usage of Felicitously

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

1. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle, Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (1883)
"It is felicitously playful in reference to her own husband, t is as follows:— BO far as regards the year; but evidently follows close on the fore- 5 Cheyne ..."

2. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, Sir W Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1911)
"If there is anything to say about the brothers at all, which is in keeping with the parable, it is what I once heard felicitously put by John McNeill in a ..."

3. An Inquiry Into Scriptual and Ancient Servitude: In which it is Shown that by E Smith, of Mansfield O. E Smith (1852)
"... is to make moral agents act right or felicitously toward each other, and all creatures with whom they are connected. Religion does not consist so much ..."

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