Dictionary Definition
noun, plural -ties.
1. The friendly reception and treatment of guests or strangers.
2. The quality or disposition of receiving and treating guests and strangers in a warm, friendly, generous way.
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ADF Definition
Acting as both gracious host and appreciative guest, involving benevolence, friendliness, humor and the honoring of a gift for a gift.
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My Understanding
I appreciate that the ADF definition includes the duty of a guest regarding hospitality. The dictionary definition implies a one sided perception. Hospitality is a pact between guest and host to treat one another with integrity, wisdom, and piety. Hospitality applies between two persons and between persons and the Kindreds. It is hospitality that feeds into and defines - broadly - the concept of Ghosti.
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