xenodochy
English edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek.
Noun edit
xenodochy (uncountable)
- Reception of strangers; hospitality.
- 1872, William Mark Hugo, History of the first Bushmen's club in the Australian colonies:
- Bushmen, as a class, are a very hospitable race — generous in their sympathies, fond of practising the virtue of xenodochy, entertain strangers with a rough but ready welcome; and it is a pity to see men of this stamp tossed about as they are.