• (RP) IPA: /ɡɹætjʊˈleɪʃən/
• (GA) IPA: /ɡɹætʃəˈleɪʃən/

gratulation

1. (now rare) A feeling of happiness and satisfaction; joy, especially at one's good fortune.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, p. 206:

     Shattuck, all unaccustomed to the practical phenomena of digging, apprehended only cause of gratulation that the investigation was to be the less hindered.

2. (archaic) The expression of pleasure at someone's else's success or luck; congratulation.
   • 1667, John Milton, “Book 7”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:

     all Heav’n, And happie Constellations on that houre / Shed thir selectest influence;
     the Earth Gave sign of gratulation