All 5 Uses of
felicity
in
Sense and Sensibility
Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:
- I shall not lose you so soon, and Edward will have greater opportunity of improving that natural taste for your favourite pursuit which must be so indispensably necessary to your future felicity.†
Chpt 4
- "Is there a felicity in the world," said Marianne, "superior to this?†
Chpt 9
- Most unwilling was she to awaken from such a dream of felicity to comprehend all the unhappy truths which attended the affair; and for some time she refused to submit to them.†
Chpt 12 *
- But when the second moment had passed, when she found every doubt, every solicitude removed, compared her situation with what so lately it had been,—saw him honourably released from his former engagement, saw him instantly profiting by the release, to address herself and declare an affection as tender, as constant as she had ever supposed it to be,—she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity;—and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart.†
Chpt 49
- His wife was not always out of humour, nor his home always uncomfortable; and in his breed of horses and dogs, and in sporting of every kind, he found no inconsiderable degree of domestic felicity.†
Chpt 50
Definitions:
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(1)
(felicity as in: domestic felicity) happiness or luck; or an instance or source of such
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(2)
(felicity as in: felicity of expression) pleasing and appropriate manner or style; or an instance of such
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Less commonly, Felicity is the first name of a female.