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harboursome en · ADJ

Etymology

From harbour + -some.

Meanings

1. Given to hospitality; hospitable.
   • That it is a praiseworthy matter to be harboursome to strangers. 1882, Walter Baxendale, The preacher's commentary on the book of Ruth:
2. Tending to harbour (feelings, etc.); harbouring; protective.
   • Minorities — as a rule — are distrustful, wounded, and harborsome of uncertainty about their tomorrows. 2001, Polska Akademia Nauk, International Society for Universalism, Dialogue and universalism:

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