felicific

Adjective

felicific (comparative more felicific, superlative most felicific)

1. (rare) Of, pertaining to, or producing pleasure or happiness.
   • Has conduct worth in and for itself, or only as its consequences are felicific as regards the social welfare?1895, John Grier Hibben, “Automatism in Morality”, in International Journal of Ethics, volume 5, number 4, page 467
   • It is plain that for Jane Austen the settled habit of moral behavior was of far more importance than spontaneity of moral response, though that in turn was preferable to a calculated weighing of advantages, a point well illustrated when Elizabeth ironically advises Jane that if she is in doubt...1980, Philip Drew, “Jane Austen and Bishop Butler”, in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, volume 35, number 2, pages 141–142