hospitality

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

HOSPITAL'ITY, noun [Latin hospitalitas.] The act or practice of receiving and entertaining strangers or guests without reward, or with kind and generous liberality. A bishop--must be given to hospitality 1 Timothy 3:2. Hospitality I have found as universal as the face of man.
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