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Congratulator

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con·grat·u·late  (kn-grch-lt, -grj-, kng-)
tr.v. con·grat·u·lat·ed, con·grat·u·lat·ing, con·grat·u·lates
To express joy or acknowledgment, as for the achievement or good fortune of (another).
[Latin congrtulr, congrtult- : com-, com- + grtulr, to rejoice (from grtus, pleasing; see gwer-2 in Indo-European roots).]
con·gratu·lator n.
con·gratu·la·tory (-l-tôr, -tr) adj.
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the guileless protagonist may be fooled, but we don't need to be told that his congratulators are really just "mocking him for blundering into the only A he is ever likely to get.
Jerry Spinelli Loser by Sieruta, Peter D. / The Horn Book Magazine
Chinese families by custom welcomed people who had come to offer their "congratulations," even if the congratulators were strangers to the family.
BECOMING URBAN: MENDICANCY AND VAGRANTS IN MODERN SHANGHAI by Lu, Hanchao / Journal of Social History
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