felicity

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FELIC'ITY, noun [Latin felicitas, from felix, happy.] 1. Happiness, or rather great happiness; blessedness; blissfulness; appropriately, the joys of heaven. 2. Prosperity; blessing; enjoyment of good. The felicities of her wonderful reign may be complete. Females - who confer on life its finest felicities.
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