hospitality

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For his hospitality was at stake.

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  1. noun Cordial and generous reception of or disposition toward guests.
  2. noun An instance of cordial and generous treatment of guests.

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  • I told Leo we'd lost Al, that I was still stuck with Maria, and that my hospitality was at the end of its rope. —  Meredith Blevins - [Szabo 01] - The Hummingbird Wizard
  • Our fears generate hostility rather than hospitality, and hospitality is a major theme of the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures. —  OnlineAthens: Top Headlines
  • But your hospitality is all we ought to accept. —  The House of Toys
  • When you are received as a guest in a friend's house, consider compliance with the hours and habits of the family, as a natural return for the hospitality which is shown to you. —  Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew
  • He had not the great house of the Vallés, with troops of slaves to wait on us and an abundance of frontier luxuries (for Mr. François Vallé, Sr., was the richest man in all that country) but his hospitality was as genuine. —  The Rose of Old St. Louis
 

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  1. Middle English hospitalite, from Old French, from Latin hospitālitās, from hospitālis, of a guest; see hospital.

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  1. from French hospitalité = Provencal hospitalitat = Spanish hospitalidad = Portuguese hospitalidade = Italian ospitalità, from Latin hospitalita(t-)s, hospitality, from hospitalis, hospitable: see hospital, adjective
 

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/hɑspɪˈtæləti/
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