Guestfriendly vs Guestfriendship - What's the difference?
guestfriendly | guestfriendship | Related terms |
Friendship]] shown to [[guest, guests; hospitality.
*1993 , Ralph J. Hexter, Robert Fitzgerald, A guide to the Odyssey :
*2005 , Margo Kitts, Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society :
*2011 , Daniela Carpi, Bioethics and Biolaw through Literature - Page 354 :
*2012 , Robert A. Williams, Jr., Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization :
Guestfriendly is a related term of guestfriendship.
As an adjective guestfriendly
is (nonce) friendly to guests, hospitable; welcoming.As a noun guestfriendship is
friendship]] shown to [[guest|guests; hospitality.guestfriendship
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*Noun
(en-noun)- Penélopê formally extends her personal hospitality to the stranger, thereby creating that special relationship of guestfriendship which involves each party in making the other's interests his or her own.
- We saw this in the renewed pledge of guestfriendship between Diomedes and Glaukos, the one's father having been a xeinos philos to the other's.
- Prince Tarquinius entered the house as a guest, but since he did not follow the rules of guestfriendship , his presence marks a violent entry even before he has violated the hostess.
- Professor Victor Alonso stresses the role of xenia'' as an overarching, transcending form of universally binding law in ancient Greece. He writes that the Greeks employed the institution of ''xenia , or guest-friendship , as a fundamental instrument and precept of international law.
