FELICITY in a Sentence

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For FELICITY, below is one of 33 sentences:
Only let me assure you, my dear Miss Elizabeth, that I can from my heart most cordially wish you equal felicity in marriage.

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 Meanings and Examples of FELICITY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
felicity
 n.  great happiness; pleasing and appropriate manner or style
Classic Sentence: (31 in 3 pages)
1  If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
2  Mr. Phillips visited them all, and this opened to his nieces a store of felicity unknown before.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
3  Till the next morning, however, she was not aware of all the felicity of her contrivance.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
4  After a week spent in professions of love and schemes of felicity, Mr. Collins was called from his amiable Charlotte by the arrival of Saturday.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25
5  Only let me assure you, my dear Miss Elizabeth, that I can from my heart most cordially wish you equal felicity in marriage.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 38
6  Had Elizabeth's opinion been all drawn from her own family, she could not have formed a very pleasing opinion of conjugal felicity or domestic comfort.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 42
7  She was disturbed by no fear for her felicity, nor humbled by any remembrance of her misconduct.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 49
8  But no such happy marriage could now teach the admiring multitude what connubial felicity really was.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 50
9  He was then past his prime, being twenty-eight years and three quarters old, of which he had reigned about seven in great felicity, and generally victorious.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II.
10  But it was decreed by fortune, my perpetual enemy, that so great a felicity should not fall to my share.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VII.
11  To see the expression of her eyes, the change of her complexion, the progress of her feelings, their doubt, confusion, and felicity, was enough.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
12  He has chosen his partner, indeed, with rare felicity.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
13  So three months glided away; three months which, in the life of the most blessed and favoured of mortals, might have been unmingled happiness, and which, in Oliver's were true felicity.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
14  A short period of exquisite felicity followed, and but a short one.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
15  Anne could do no more; but her heart prophesied some mischance to damp the perfection of her felicity.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 23
Example Sentence:
1  She wrote a note to the newlyweds wishing them great felicity in their wedded life.
2  Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur every day.