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Meanings of felicity in inglés

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

      dicha
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      ocurrència oportuna

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

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          Examples for "happiness"
          Examples for "happiness"
          1
          Indeed, the same choice may bring great happiness yet also great pain.
          Worlds of Honor
          2
          The best hope of happiness is helping families resolve problems from birth.
          The Guardian
          3
          OPINION: Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness.
          The Irish Times
          4
          This gave the greatest happiness to the greatest number: quite easily done.
          The Guardian
          5
          Devices used to measure various health indicators can also gauge worker happiness.
          BBC
          Usage of felicity in inglés
          1
          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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