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Definition of Gratulatory
1. Adjective. Expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune. "A gratulatory address"
Similar to: Felicitous
Derivative terms: Congratulate, Congratulate, Congratulate, Congratulate
Definition of Gratulatory
1. a. Expressing gratulation or joy; congratulatory.
Definition of Gratulatory
1. Adjective. (archaic) congratulatory ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gratulatory
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gratulatory
Literary usage of Gratulatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers (1835)
"... however, of the pleasure which unambitious minds may derive from humble sources,
that the poet wrote upon this occasion aself-gratulatory ode, ..."
2. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1870)
"a self-gratulatory ode, in which he expresses quite as bounding a transport at
his accession to a salary of sixpence a day as Napoleon could have done at ..."
3. History of the College of St. John the Evangelist, Cambridge by Thomas Baker (1869)
"'A gratulatory Letter to the Lady Bowes for books which shoe gave to the College.'
p. 369. 'You knowe, Madame, the weake Lungs of an Eccho which re- ..."
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