harboursome

adj — 2 senses

harboursome

adj

Etymology From harbour + -some.

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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