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Definition of Harborous
1. a. Hospitable.
Definition of Harborous
1. Adjective. (obsolete) hospitable ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Harborous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harborous
Literary usage of Harborous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ecclesiastical Biography: Or, Lives of Eminent Men, Connected with the by Christopher Wordsworth (1818)
"Not given to filthy lucre, but harborous, $c. The contrarie whereof, was so odious
unto saint Paul, that he esteemed the same no lesse then a kind of ..."
2. Ecclesiastical Biography: Or, Lives of Eminent Men, Connected with the by Christopher Wordsworth (1853)
"... hee might also have avoided, if he would have been counselled by some of his
friends. It followeth moreover: harborous. And as touching this word ..."
3. Magnalia Christi Americana: Or, The Ecclesiastical History of New-England by Cotton Mather, Samuel Gardner Drake, Thomas Robbins (1853)
"[For this is a well known sea, called Euxine, or harborous, because .ere are no
good harbours in it. ..."
4. English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History & Literature by Edward Arber (1895)
"Towards which unions, their nature, which is easy and harborous receptive] to
strangers ; hath done more than any laws could have effected but with long ..."
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