felicitous

• “Instead, he rendered felicitas as "felicitee" which was already available, and he coined a felicitous new word for beatitudo: "wellfulness.”

  The Huffington Post: Philip Reynolds: The Biblical Definitions Of The Pursuit Of Happiness

• “In these passages not only is the thought singularly pure and noble, and the expression felicitous, but the actual metre represents almost the high-water mark of the post-Vergilian hexameter.”

  Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal

• “The President of the British Empire Club of Providence, Rhode Island, Mr. Spencer Over, was the guest of the Club at this meeting and was introduced by President Mitchell in felicitous terms, the members applauding heartily as Mr. Over bowed his thanks.”

  Difficulties and Opportunities of the British Empire

• “ A performative that "works" is called felicitous and one that does not is called infelicitous.”

  Recently Uploaded Slideshows

• “I had to look up the word "felicitous", I'll add it to my flashcard program if I remember it!”

  Interview with Malin Sandström

• “We may be spared, hereafter, the infliction of numberless "felicitous" conjectures, on which the following is scarcely a parody.”

  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876

• “The book is hard to put down because of this kind of felicitous prose, but it is a long book and takes a long time to read.”

  The Daily News - News

• “One evening devoted to each play, discussing the human issues involved, examining and explaining the use of language and poetry and highlighting the most 'felicitous' passages would be of interest to many people, not the least those who were unable to appreciate all that when they were callow youngsters.”

  Orangeville

• “felicitous" fault, "trailing after it a line of golden associations;" 2dly, because the practice involves a dishonesty.”

  Biographical Essays

• “Prophecy and dyspepsia did not affect her as a felicitous admixture.”

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