inhospitalityn.
/ɪnhɒspɪˈtalɪti/ The quality or practice of being inhospitable; want of kindness in the reception or entertainment of strangers or visitors.
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society > leisure > social event > hospitality > [noun] > quality of > not
unhospitalitya1425
inhospitality1576
inhospitability1658
inhospitablenessc1660
unhospitableness1681
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 284 Our naturall inhospitalitie and disdaine of straungers.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 513 The Seas beare also the names of..the Euxine by a contrarie appellation, for their inhospitalitie.
1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. viii. 74 Inhospitality is a vehement opinion,..that guests ought to be shunned.
1717 G. Berkeley Jrnls. Trav. Italy 1 June in Wks. (1955) VII. 291 Their inhospitality in refusing to lodge us.
1845 C. Darwin Jrnl. (ed. 2) viii. 156 I did not meet with even one instance of rudeness or inhospitality.
1894 H. H. Gardener Unofficial Patriot 122 It was here..that he learned the inhospitality of the free states to the freed negroes.
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