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Meanings of felicity in English

Portuguese
felicidade
Catalan
benaventurança
Spanish
dicha
Wikidata

State of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.

felicidade
Catalan
ocurrència oportuna

Pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression)

ocurrència oportuna
Usage of felicity in English
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The fitness and the beauty lie in the felicity of the language.
Reminiscences of Scottish Life & Character
2
Yudhishthira that kings are competent to obtain felicity in the next world.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
3
The goal of Progress for them was the attainment of human felicity.
The Idea of Progress: An Inquiry into Its Origin and Growth
4
With even greater felicity Wildenvey has rendered the songs of the play.
An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway
5
Mrs. Portico was almost appalled at the facility and felicity of it.
Georgina's Reasons
6
The comparison of my own superior felicity gave me anything but pleasure.
The Best Letters of Charles Lamb
7
He had reigned for seven years in great felicity, and generally victorious.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction
8
His son Myron enjoyed this felicity all the days of his life.
Captains of Industry; or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besi...
9
But unfortunately the felicity of those who surrounded him was less complete.
Queen Victoria
10
But this is a felicity granted only to the favourites of nature.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 03 / ...
11
Hétfalusy had the felicity of embracing his long-lost grandchild before he died.
The Day of Wrath
12
In this full felicity, tears welled up to their eyes every instant.
Les Misérables
13
Wampum-hair was universally honored, and regarded as the cause of this felicity.
The Lost Hunter / A Tale of Early Times
14
Giving the sack is a felicity granted only to a few people.
Here are Ladies
15
There, in Heaven itself, is distinction of inferior, superior, and middling felicity.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13...
16
But the contempt of death from corporal animosity, promoteth not our felicity.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
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