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Definition of Hospitableness
1. Noun. Having a disposition that welcomes guests and is fond of entertaining.
Definition of Hospitableness
1. n. The quality of being hospitable; hospitality.
Definition of Hospitableness
1. Noun. The quality of being hospitable. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hospitableness
Literary usage of Hospitableness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"hospitableness. (hos'-pe-ta-bl-nes) «.». Disposition to entertain strangers;
kindness to strangers. HOSPITABLY, (hos'-pe-ta-ble) ad. ..."
2. Literary Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century by George Edward Woodberry (1921)
"... the most welcome part of these volumes is not what they tell of the great ones
of the earth, or of the social grace and hospitableness of England in its ..."
3. The African Repository by American Colonization Society (1853)
"A mere political cypher. Canada is not his country, nor is there any evidence
that it ever can be. The coldness and in- hospitableness of the climate, ..."
4. A Book of Carnegie Libraries by Theodore Wesley Koch (1917)
"... as well as a general spaciousness, cheerfulness and hospitableness of aspect.
The scale and character of the drawings are left to the Commission to fix, ..."
5. In God's Out-of-doors by William Alfred Quayle (1902)
"There is a feeling of hospitableness when a lone fisherman fishes out of his
pocket a lunch which he has filched (not to say fished) from his wife's ..."
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