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inhospitality|ɪnhɒspɪˈtælɪtɪ|
[ad. L. inhospitālitās, f. inhospitālis inhospitable: see above and -ity. Perh. immed. through F. inhospitalité (1530 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
The quality or practice of being inhospitable; want of kindness in the reception or entertainment of strangers or visitors.
1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 323 Our naturall inhospitalitie and disdaine of straungers. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 513 The Seas beare also the names of..the Euxine by a contrarie appellation, for their inhospitalitie. 1656Stanley Hist. Philos. viii. (1701) 323/2 Inhospitality is a vehement opinion,..that Guests ought to be shunn'd. 1717Berkeley Jrnl. Tour Italy 1 June Wks. 1871 IV. 557 Their inhospitality in refusing to lodge us. 1845Darwin Voy. Nat. viii. (1879) 156, I did not meet with even one instance of rudeness or inhospitality. 1894H. H. Gardener Unoff. Patriot 122 It was here..that he learned the inhospitality of the free states to the freed negroes. |