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What does felicitous mean?

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Adjective
  1. Fitting; happening at the right time.
  2. Working out well.
  3. (linguistics) Semantically and pragmatically coherent, fitting in the context.
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Or, to use the felicitous phrase of the late Northrop Frye, everything in the Scriptures is self-referential.
I have always felt that I manifest a felicitous combination of his compassion and her boundaries.
There follows a chapter on the three fugal finales from op.20, its start a high point of felicitous writing.
This makes it a happy hunting ground for anyone with the felicitous habit of looking at the lighter side of life.
His originality is reflected in felicitous figures of speech and colorful use of words.
They rely heavily on felicitous coincidence for the plots, and the character development is cartoonish.

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