The Collaborative International Dictionary
Felicity \Fe*lic"i*ty\, n.; pl. Felicities. [OE. felicite, F. f['e]licit['e], fr. L. felicitas, fr. felix, -icis, happy, fruitful; akin to fetus.]
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The state of being happy; blessedness; blissfulness; enjoyment of good.
Our own felicity we make or find.
--Johnson.Finally, after this life, to attain everlasting joy and felicity.
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That which promotes happiness; a successful or gratifying event; prosperity; blessing.
the felicities of her wonderful reign.
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A pleasing faculty or accomplishment; as, felicity in painting portraits, or in writing or talking. ``Felicity of expression.''
--Bp. Warburton.Syn: Happiness; bliss; beatitude; blessedness; blissfulness. See Happiness.
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n. (plural of felicity English)
Usage examples of "felicities".
When we read the praises bestowed by Lord Penzance and the other illustrious experts upon the legal condition and legal aptnesses, brilliances, profundities, and felicities so prodigally displayed in the Plays, and try to fit them to the historyless Stratford stage-manager, they sound wild, strange, incredible, ludicrous.
And altho he had no Opinion of reputed Felicities below, and apprehended Men widely out in the estimate of such Happiness, yet his sober contempt of the World wrought no Democratism or Cynicism, no laughing or snarling at it, as well understanding there are not Felicities in this World to satisfy a serious Mind.
For Fortune lays the Plot of our Adversities in the foundation of our Felicities, blessing us in the first quadrate, to blast us more sharply in the last.
And since in the highest felicities there lieth a capacity of the lowest miseries, she hath this advantage from our happiness to make us truly miserable.
The Knowledge of future evils mortifies present felicities, and there is more content in the uncertainty or ignorance of them.
In vain we compute our felicities by the advantage of our good names, since bad have equall durations.
The Archbishop enclosed in his wonderful and almost wooden vestments perspired upon his throne, lending from time to time a connoisseur's ear to the felicities of Vittoria's counterpoint.
High in the rank of her most serious and heartfelt felicities, was the reflection that all necessity of concealment from Mr.