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Definition of Inhospitalities
1. inhospitality [n] - See also: inhospitality
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inhospitalities
Literary usage of Inhospitalities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson, ( (2001)
"The inhospitalities of the lonely wilderness were worse than the curses and
revilings of riotous mobs. They were overtaken by severe snow-storms. ..."
2. Writings and Speeches of Alvan Stewart, on Slavery by Alvan Stewart, Luther Rawson Marsh (1860)
"... it has no latitude, no longitude, no length, no breadth; it is truth, and is
as earnest in its pleadings, amidst the inhospitalities of polar cold, ..."
3. Satan in Society by Nicholas Francis Cooke, Physician (1873)
"We conquered the inhospitalities of climate and unfruitfulness of nature, and we
erected in the wilderness temples of beauty, and clothed the sterile field ..."
4. Western Portraiture, and Emigrants' Guide: A Description of Wisconsin by Daniel S. Curtiss, Joseph Parrish Thompson (1852)
"... tenement to the chill and pitiless brine ; these eyes close regretfully on
the stranger skies and bleak inhospitalities of the sullen and stormy main. ..."
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