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English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ξενοδοχία (xenodokhía), from ξένος (xénos, “alien”) + δέχομαι (dékhomai, “to receive”).
Noun
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.