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hospitality|hɒspɪˈtælɪtɪ|
[a. OF. hospitalité (12–13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. hospitālitās, f. hospitālis (see hospital a.).]
1. a. The act or practice of being hospitable; the reception and entertainment of guests, visitors, or strangers, with liberality and goodwill.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Thomas 424 [Þe] aucht wel ma be, for to luf hospitalyte. 1382Wyclif Rom. xii. 13 Hospitalite, that is, herboringe of pore men. c1460Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. xviii. (1885) 153 Euery abbey priory, and oþer howses founded vpon hospitalite. 1550Crowley Last Trump 705, I can kepe hospitalitye, And geue as much vnto the pore. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 151 That the old English Hospitality was..a meere vice, I have formerly shewed. a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) II. 421 Keeping good hospitality in the Christmas at Bromley. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 26 June, Living in the country and maintaining ‘old English hospitality’..This is a phrase very much used by the English themselves, both in words and writing; but I never heard of it out of the island, except by way of irony and sarcasm. 1810Scott Lady of L. i. xxix, Every courteous rite was paid, That hospitality could claim. 1865Livingstone Zambesi xxviii. 580 We accepted his hospitality after the weather had moderated.
b. with pl. An instance of this.
1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Aristocr. Wks. (Bohn) II. 82 In matters of state, and of expense..in convivial and domestic hospitalities. 1890Spectator 14 June, The mind has various hospitalities to offer, and may treat its guests..with a caprice we cannot wholly over-reach.
c. Applied in conventional phr. to the admission of correspondence, etc., to a newspaper.
1913Punch 16 Apr. 298, I thank you for the hospitality of your columns.
d. to partake of (or enjoy) His (or Her) Majesty's hospitality: to be in prison. jocular.
1894Strand Mag. Sept. 296/2 Partaking of Her Majesty's hospitality, in a building specially erected for gentlemen who need a compulsory holiday. 1938F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad xiv. 157 One awful thug I know, who is now enjoying His Majesty's hospitality, beat his woman up regularly.
†2. Hospitableness. Obs.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Hospitality, a being well disposed to entertain. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. ii. ii. §3 (1737) II. 166 The noble Affection, which, in antient Language, was term'd Hospitality, viz. extensive Love of Mankind, and Relief of Strangers.
†3. A hospitable institution or foundation; a hospital (sense 2). In quot. 1571, ? Hospitable institutions generally. Obs. rare.
1571Act 13 Eliz. c. 10 §2 The Dilapidations and the Decaye of all Spyrituall Lyvynges and Hospitallytie. 1761Hume Hist. Eng. II. xxii. 45 The hospitality of St. Leonard's near York.
4. attrib. and Comb. Now commonly used of a room, suite of rooms, etc., in a hotel, TV studio, etc., set aside for the entertainment of guests with drinks.
1552Huloet, Hospitalitie keper, or he who kepeth a good howse of meat and drinke, philoxenus. Ibid., Hospitalitie kepynge, larem fouens. 1897Daily News 5 Oct. 5/3 The women..have formed a strong ‘hospitality’ committee. 1959Encounter Aug. 8/1 The eminent person is ushered into..the ‘hospitality’ room [at the BBC]. 1960News Chron. 2 Mar. 4/4 The drinks, consumed rather dismally in the hospitality room,..conspire to make a TV appearance an ordeal. 1963J. N. Harris Weird World Wes Beattie (1964) ii. 20 At these conventions a lot of big companies put in hospitality suites—snake rooms, they call them. 1966M. Hastings Cork on Telly i. 10 There was no time to talk to him in the hospitality room before the programme. 1969Observer 8 June 38/1 The Americans led off by introducing Shatalov and Yeliseyev to the taste of bourbon from the hospitality cupboards of the private room at the American exhibition stand. 1970Globe & Mail (Toronto) 25 Sept. 40/1 Opportunities..in the ever-growing hospitality field [in motels]. 1970Globe Mag. (Toronto) 26 Sept. 6/3 There aren't many bands or hospitality suites or funny hats. 1971Bahamas XXIII. iii. 34/1 She moved into the hospitality industry where her personality assets were plus factors. 1972Guardian 20 Mar. 11/1 She said it in the Hospitality Room..right after the show. |