2. Interjection. congratulations! ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Felicitations
1. felicitation [n] - See also: felicitation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Felicitations
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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