Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of gratulating or felicitating; congratulation.
- n. Gratified feeling; the sense of gratification; rejoicing.
Wiktionary
- n. A feeling of happiness and satisfaction; joy, especially at one's good fortune.
- n. archaic The expression of pleasure at someone's else's success or luck; congratulation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of gratulating or felicitating; congratulation.
Etymologies
- From Latin grātulātiōnem, from grātulārī. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I'm rather fond of the word gratulation, which the OED defines as 'a feeling of gratification, joy, or exultation; rejoicing in heart 'but also includes a note that states that it implies self-congratulation upon some good fortune.”
“I'm really quite pleased I didn't have get a gratulation/congradulations cake when I gradumulated.”
“Many were the words of gratulation and good-luck which were bestowed on”
“The frank and bold voice of Richard was heard in joyous gratulation.”
“Many a hand of gratulation was thrust out to his grasp, trembling as it was with anxiety, and finally with delight; his voice faltering as he replied, ‘Aye, aye, I kend Alan was the lad to make a spoon or spoil a horn.’”
“While he was in this state of self-gratulation, Richard burst into the circle, attended, indeed, only by two men, but in his own headlong energies an irresistible host.”
“Imagine beacons flaming, rockets blazing, yards manned, ships and forts saluting with their thunder, every steamer and vessel, every town and village from Ramsgate to Gravesend, swarming with happy gratulation; young girls with flowers, scattering roses before her; staid citizens and aldermen pushing and squeezing and panting to make the speech, and bow the knee, and bid her welcome!”
“Suppose these points — and none of them depend upon Mr. Wolfe at all — and what becomes of the glory of the young hero, of the great minister who discovered him, of the intoxicated nation which rose up frantic with self-gratulation at the victory?”
“But, in the midst of this chuckle of self-gratulation, some figure goes by which Thersites too can love and admire.”
“One, throwing down his firelock, clasped his leader so fast round the knees, that he was unable to extricate himself, muttering, at the same time, a torrent of Gaelic gratulation, which every now and then rose into a sort of scream of gladness.”
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