houseroomn.
/ˈhaʊsruːm/, /ˈhaʊsrʊm/, U.S. /ˈhaʊsˌrum/, /ˈhaʊsˌrʊm/ 1. Space or accommodation in a house or home, esp. as provided to a person on a temporary basis as a guest; lodging.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > [noun] > house-room
houseroom1556
house-roomth1579
lodgingc1720
1556 in N. B. Paradise Thomas Lodge (1931) 192 My..intente is to have Seven poore men..viijd wekelye towards their mayntenance and also convenient lodginge and free house rome and dwellinge in the said Messuage.
1576 G. Pettie Petite Pallace 40 If you follow my counsayle, you shall not giue him house roome long.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. iii. sig. Bb7 Here is at his gate an errant Knight, That house-rome craues. View more context for this quotation
1601 A. Munday & H. Chettle Death Earle of Huntington sig. I And thou find'st house-roome in this Nunry.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 370 They dare hardly give it House-room, or afford it a place in their Libraries.
1773 J. Johnson Let. 28 Sept. in Joshua Johnson's Letterbk. (1979) 100 I can't transact the business here for the allowance you make me, as I must have two clerks and house room.
1790 H. Remsen Let. 25 Sept. in T. Jefferson Papers (1965) XVII. 519 He could not be furnished with house room and fire wood.
1828 Q. Rev. 37 100 It is very well to walk through the exhibition; but who would wish to give house-room to half the things he sees there?
1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles ii. ix. 193 I must trouble you to give this man house-room for a few days.
1924 Amer. Mercury Sept. 87/2 Why, I wouldn't give a she-dog houseroom, not for any amount of money.
1949 M. Fortes Social Struct. 70 Ashanti say..that a person can claim house-room in the house of a patrilateral kinsman.
2003 E. Noble Reading Group 376 They both thought she was crazy for giving her sister houseroom, with everything that had gone on this year.
2. figurative and in extended use. Now esp. in to give (a person or thing) houseroom: to be willing to have or consider something; to consider to be of value. Frequently in negative contexts.
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1582 A. Fleming tr. A. Autpertus Monomachie of Motiues iv. xvi.185 Vncharitablenes..may be displaced..considering that so long as we giue so graceles a gest house-roome in our harts, we can not be touched with compassion of the poore.
1586 Praise of Musicke ii. 29 A precious stone may be set in ledde... In which cases wee..pittie their vnfortunate houserome.
a1618 W. Raleigh Advice of Sonne in Remains (1661) 116 Being..turned both out of service and house-room of this wicked world.
a1649 T. Shepard Parable Ten Virgins (1660) ii. xix. §xvi.161 The damning sin, is some dear sin; a sin which the soul allowes habitation, and house-roome, and heart-roome unto.
1726 R. Erskine Happy Congregation 183 Consider what House-room there is in him [sc. Christ], for the People to gather unto..He is a hiding House for the People to gather to.
1782 St. Stephen's Tripod 60 Full sure a Succession of Losses and Gains, Give Confidence House-room, and shuts out Despair.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. v. 401 There are few breasts capacious enough to afford house-room for two such opposite inmates as political ambition and gratitude.
1863 Jrnl. Hort., Cottage Gardener, & Country Gentleman 24 Feb. 153/2 Datura chlorantha recurvis has special mention in most catalogues, but I really must say I would not give it houseroom.
1892 A. B. Bruce Apologetics Introd. i. 25 His [sc. Lessing's] large genial nature gave houseroom to ideas and tendencies not easily reconciled.
1903 W. B. Yeats Let. 6 Apr. (1994) III. 343 As to the shorter plays, I thank you very much for your offer to look for house room for them in America.
2010 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 3 Apr. 26 I will not give houseroom to the American comic's disparaging comments about its [sc. Australia's] lack of civilisation.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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