Congratulating

Definitions

The act by which someone is congratulated; congratulation.

Equivalents

Examples

“As, when speaking familiarly we say⟳ of a new-married couple, they are gone to pass⟳ the honey-moon together; seems, te pas, de hou-inne hije muê hun: q. e. it is quite right, the visiting and receiving troubles tires them; it is as it ought to be, for the congratulatings and ceremonial visits molests and fatigues them; […]”

“It will be a mighty host⟳, that company of the Redeemed! To say⟳ nothing of the babes who have⟳ died in infancy, untasted by them the cup of sin which the world administers to its votaries—not counting those cherubs numerous as the stars of the milky way, what crowds shall be there of those who had repented them of their sins before their day of grace was past and gone; and Oh, what greetings and congratulatings of long separated friends!”

“The basic illocutionary acts are assertions (describing, stating, concluding), directives (orders, requests, suggestions, questions), commissives (threats, promises), expressives (apologies, thankings, congratulatings), and declarations (baptisms, marriage pronouncements).”

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