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Definition
welcoming
in various senses, including:
- inclined to treat guests well — as in "She is good-natured and hospitable."
- favorable to life and growth — as in "The climate is hospitable to roses."
- open to new ideas or change — as in "The organization is hospitable to new ideas."
- With this measured, but not exactly cold assurance of a hospitable purpose, Hepzibah kissed her cheek.Chapter 5 — May and November (38% in)
- Just within the entrance, however, stood two serving-men, pointing some of the guests to the neighborhood of the kitchen and ushering others into the statelier rooms,—hospitable alike to all, but still with a scrutinizing regard to the high or low degree of each.Chapter 1 — The Old Pyncheon Family (30% in)
- The maiden lady herself, sternly inhospitable in her first purposes, soon began to feel that the door ought to be shoved back, and the rusty key be turned in the reluctant lock.Chapter 4 — A Day Behind the Counter (94% in)
- She appeared to have no preliminary design, but gave a touch here and another there; brought some articles of furniture to light and dragged others into the shadow; looped up or let down a window-curtain; and, in the course of half an hour, had fully succeeded in throwing a kindly and hospitable smile over the apartment.Chapter 5 — May and November (15% in)
- These words, however, had not the inhospitable bluntness with which they may strike the reader; for the two relatives, in a talk before bedtime, had arrived at a certain degree of mutual understanding.Chapter 5 — May and November (23% in)
- On hearing these so hospitable offers, and such generous recognition of the claims of kindred, Phoebe felt very much in the mood of running up to Judge Pyncheon, and giving him, of her own accord, the kiss from which she had so recently shrunk away.Chapter 8 — The Pyncheon of To-day (78% in)
- In other respects, it was a substantial, jolly-looking mansion, and seemed fit to be the residence of a patriarch, who might establish his own headquarters in the front gable and assign one of the remainder to each of his six children, while the great chimney in the centre should symbolize the old fellow's hospitable heart, which kept them all warm, and made a great whole of the seven smaller ones.Chapter 13 — Alice Pyncheon (19% in)
There are no more uses of "hospitable" in The House of the Seven Gables.
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