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     #896.  Congratulation. —­ N. congratulation, gratulation[obs3];
felicitation; salute &c. 894; condolence &c. 915; compliments of the season. 
     V. congratulate, gratulate[obs3]; felicitate; give one joy, wish one
joy; compliment; tender one’s congratulations, offer one’s congratulations; wish many happy returns of the day, wish a merry Christmas and a happy new year.
     praise,laud (commendation) 931.
     congratulate oneself &c. (rejoice) 838. 
     Adj. congratulatory, gratulatory[obs3]. 
     Phr.  “I wish you all the joy that you can wish” [Merchant of
Venice]; best wishes.

     #897.  Love. —­ N. love; fondness &c. adj.; liking; inclination &c.
(desire) 865; regard, dilection|, admiration, fancy.
     affection, sympathy, fellow-feeling; tenderness &c. adj.; heart,
brotherly love; benevolence &c. 906; attachment.
     yearning, gr/eros/gr, tender passion, amour; gyneolatry[obs3];
gallantry, passion, flame, devotion, fervor, enthusiasm, transport of love, rapture, enchantment, infatuation, adoration, idolatry. 
     Cupid, Venus; myrtle; true lover’s knot; love token, love suit, love
affair, love tale, love story; the, old story, plighted love; courtship &c. 902; amourette[obs3]; free love.
     maternal love, gr/storge/gr[Grk], parental love; young love, puppy
love.
     attractiveness; popularity; favorite &c. 899.
     lover, suitor, follower, admirer, adorer, wooer, amoret[obs3], beau,
sweetheart, inamorato[It], swain, young man, flame, love, truelove; leman[obs3], Lothario, gallant, paramour, amoroso[obs3], cavaliere servente[It], captive, cicisbeo[obs3]; caro sposo[It].
     inamorata, ladylove, idol, darling, duck, Dulcinea, angel, goddess,
cara sposa[It].
     betrothed, affianced, fiancee.
     flirt, coquette; amorette[obs3]; pair of turtledoves; abode of love,
agapemone[obs3]. 
     V. love, like, affect, fancy, care for, take an interest in, be
partial to, sympathize with; affection; be in love &c. with adj.; have a love &c. n. for, entertain a love &c. n. for, harbor cherish a love &c. n. for; regard, revere; take to, bear love to, be wedded to; set one’s affections on; make much of, feast one’s eyes on; hold dear, prize; hug, cling to, cherish, pet.
     burn; adore, idolize, love to distraction, aimer eperdument[Fr]; dote
on, dote upon; take a fancy to, look sweet upon; become enamored &c. adj.; fall in love with, lose one’s heart; desire &c. 865.
     excite love; win the heart, gain the heart, win the affections, gain
the affections, secure the love, engage the affections; take the fancy of have a place in the heart, wind round the heart; attract, attach, endear, charm, fascinate, captivate, bewitch, seduce, enamor, enrapture, turn the head.
     get into favor; ingratiate oneself, insinuate oneself, worm oneself;
propitiate, curry favor with, pay one’s court