felicity - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • expression: In places the writing may lack clarity and felicity of expression.
  • style: THERE is one felicity of style which is peculiarly Scott's own; the very happy names which he gives his dramatis personae.

Converse of object

  • have: You honor me too much in ascribing to me a degree of intimacy with Miss Fanshawe I have not the felicity to enjoy.
  • enjoy: You live in happy times, and enjoy a singular felicity.
  • attain: Indeed without these vital ties it would be wholly impossible for the world of humanity to attain true felicity and success.
  • imagine: The imagined felicity vanished, and he begged Dionysius to remove him from his seat of peril.

Adjective modifier

  • supreme: But the greatest bliss is the good pleasure of God: that is the supreme felicity.
  • eternal: Some seek their rest and happiness on earth, others eternal felicity in heaven.
  • domestic: She would have found her mental superiority very much in the way of domestic felicity.
  • great: The greater part of the Church has passed into a realm of greater felicity.
  • verbal: A man does not hear, as in the smart novels, these gems of verbal felicity dropped between diplomatists at dinner.
  • such: She had all the qualities to make a man a good wife, if it had been my fate to experience such felicity.

Modifies a noun

  • condition: The conditions that make speech acts real are called felicity conditions.

Preposition: in

  • heaven: Some seek their rest and happiness on earth, others eternal felicity in heaven.

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