All 3 Uses of
felicity
in
Gulliver's Travels
Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:
- He was then past his prime, being twenty-eight years and three quarters old, of which he had reigned about seven in great felicity, and generally victorious.†
Chpt 1
- Imagine with thyself, courteous reader, how often I then wished for the tongue of Demosthenes or Cicero, that might have enabled me to celebrate the praise of my own dear native country in a style equal to its merits and felicity.†
Chpt 2
- But it was decreed by fortune, my perpetual enemy, that so great a felicity should not fall to my share.†
Chpt 4 *
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.