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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.