Both Uses of
felicity
in
Oliver Twist
- So three months glided away; three months which, in the life of the most blessed and favoured of mortals, might have been unmingled happiness, and which, in Oliver's were true felicity.†
Chpt 32 *
- Mrs. Maylie took up her abode with her son and daughter-in-law, to enjoy, during the tranquil remainder of her days, the greatest felicity that age and worth can know—the contemplation of the happiness of those on whom the warmest affections and tenderest cares of a well-spent life, have been unceasingly bestowed.†
Chpt 53
Definition:
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(felicity as in: domestic felicity) happiness or luck; or an instance or source of such