Sample Sentences forfelicitygrouped by contextual meaning (editor-reviewed)
felicity as in: domestic felicity
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She is destined for felicity and prosperity.
felicity = happiness
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It is important to her future felicity.
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...my best wishes for your felicity ... (source)felicity = happiness or luck
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Mr. Phillips visited them all, and this opened to his nieces a store of felicity unknown before. (source)felicity = happiness
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The real issue is how to find felicity within limits. (source)felicity = happiness
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Later at Gage & Tollner's, as Leslie and I dined beneath gaslight on littleneck clams and crabmeat imperial, I came as near to experiencing a pure amalgam of sensual and spiritual felicities as I ever would in my life.† (source)
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Professing myself, moreover, convinced that the General's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled by whomsoever it may concern.... Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (source)
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The suggestion that she was a limited artist and that certain felicities would be forever closed to her never failed to make Camila frantic.† (source)
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For now, since by many prolonged, repeated experiences, I have perceived that in all cases man must eventually lower, or at least shift, his conceit of attainable felicity; not placing it anywhere in the intellect or the fancy; but in the wife, the heart, the bed, the table, the saddle, the fireside, the country; now that I have perceived all this, I am ready to squeeze case eternally. (source)
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to become in one's obscurity, and through one's obscurity, the star around which this angel gravitates,—few felicities equal this.† (source)
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Let us break the fatal charm that has seduced us from the paths of felicity and prosperity. (source)
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It was one of the days when she was so handsome that to be handsome was enough, and all the rest—her grace, her quickness, her social felicities—seemed the overflow of a bounteous nature.† (source)
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To see the expression of her eyes, the change of her complexion, the progress of her feelings, their doubt, confusion, and felicity, was enough. (source)
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In Colonel Pyncheon's funeral sermon, which was printed, and is still extant, the Rev. Mr. Higginson enumerates, among the many felicities of his distinguished parishioner's earthly career, the happy seasonableness of his death.† (source)
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felicity as in: felicity of expression
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Adams described Jefferson as having "felicity of expression."
felicity = pleasing and appropriate
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With her usual felicity of phrase, she said...
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He can turn effortlessly from the carnage of war into the felicity of a woman washing her hair in a mountain stream. (source)felicity = pleasantness
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I gave them companionship and felicitous union. (source)felicitous = pleasing
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I remember a particularly felicitous rhyme between 'flaky bereft' and 'bakery theft.' (source)felicitous = pleasing
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On one level this was natural and something to which Ned had become accustomed, for both women were great beauties, Gertie slim and dark, Julia tall and felicitously proportioned. (source)felicitously = pleasingly
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Where his friend saw dappled light, the felicity of flight, the sadness of gravity, he saw the solid form of a common sparrow. (source)felicity = causing of happiness
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Although of course I made no deliberate attempt to overhear, I could not help but get the gist of what was being said, and was surprised by the extent of my employer's knowledge, which, despite the occasional infelicity, betrayed a deep enthusiasm for English ways. (source)infelicity = awkwardness or inappropriatenessstandard prefix: The prefix "in-" in infelicity means not and reverses the meaning of felicity. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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This amazed and enraptured Tess, whose slight experiences had been so infelicitous till now; and in her reaction from indignation against the male sex she swerved to excess of honour for Clare.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in infelicitous means not and reverses the meaning of felicitous. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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He has traveled many hours from the south, from the mangroves, to be with us, to cleanse you of your infelicities.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in infelicities means not and reverses the meaning of felicities. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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She had even commissioned someone to write felicitous messages on red banners, as if my parents themselves had draped these decorations to congratulate me on my good luck. (source)felicitous = pleasing
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Thus I was ready to bide my time and discover what might felicitously happen, see what Sundays like this—entwined amid the other promising days of the onrushing summer—would bring.† (source)
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This specimen, written in haste as it was, had not a fault; and there was a felicity in the flow of the first four words, in the arrangement of "My very dear Fanny," which she could have looked at for ever. (source)felicity = a pleasing style
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I wish to demonstrate further the infelicity of these arms.† (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus
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"Of all the nights to see Rosewood's hottest boys without their shirts on ...They're all so gorgeous," murmured Felicity McDowell, who was mixing tequila with Fanta Grape, next to her. (source)Felicity = a name in this novel
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Dear St. Felicity, patron saint of those who've suffered the death of a child, I ask for your intercession that the Lord will help this woman find peace .... (source)
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