guestfriendship

English

Noun

guestfriendship (usually uncountable, plural guestfriendships)

1. Alternative form of guest-friendship
   • 1993, Ralph J. Hexter, Robert Fitzgerald, A guide to the Odyssey:

     Penélopê formally extends her personal hospitality to the stranger, thereby creating that special relationship of guestfriendship which involves each party in making the other's interests his or her own.

   • 2005, Margo Kitts, Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society:

     We saw this in the renewed pledge of guestfriendship between Diomedes and Glaukos, the one's father having been a xeinos philos to the other's.

   • 2011, Daniela Carpi, Bioethics and Biolaw through Literature - Page 354:

     Prince Tarquinius entered the house as a guest, but since he did not follow the rules of guestfriendship, his presence marks a violent entry even before he has violated the hostess.

   • 2021 November 23, Pamela Stern, The Inuit World, Routledge, →ISBN:

     Peder Hansen Resen (1625-1688), [wrote that] besides being "barbarians," immigrants, and hostile to Christians, the Greenlanders were also "our true brothers in Adam" who enjoyed the kingdom's guestfriendship by inhabiting Danish territory.