Utiliser "felicitating" dans une phrase

1. There was no doubt my mother was proud of me as she rejoiced with guests, moving from table to table, felicitating with them

2. "No, he has no bent towards exploration, or the enlargement of our geognosis: that would be a special purpose which I could recognize with some approbation, though without felicitating him on a career which so often ends in premature and violent death