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harborsome

harborsome is the alternative form of harboursome.

Meaning of harboursome

Adjective

harboursome (comparative more harboursome, superlative most harboursome)

  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

Forms of harborsome

comparativemore harborsome
superlativemost harborsome

Questions about harborsome

What is harborsome the alternative form of?
Harborsome is the alternative form of harboursome.

Words near harborsome in the dictionary

  1. harbors of refuge
  2. harborscape
  3. harborscapes
  4. harborside
  5. harborsides
  6. harborsome
  7. harborward
  8. harborwards
  9. Harbottle
  10. Harbottles
  11. harbour

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