prospiracy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A play on the word conspiracy, where the con- element, reinterpreted as con (“a disadvantage”), has been altered to pro (“an advantage”). By surface analysis, pro- + conspiracy.
Noun
[edit]prospiracy (plural prospiracies)
- (rare, nonce word) A secret plan by a group to do something beneficial.
- 1897, Gelett Burgess, chapter 5, in Vivette: Or, The Memoirs of the Romance Association, 2nd edition, volumes 1–3, Boston: Copeland & Day, page 141:
- Prospiracy. A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing. [Page heading]
- 2011 March 31, Daniel Pinchbeck, “Daniel Pinchbeck: 10”, in Dazed[1], archived from the original on 2021-01-25:
- According to this narrative, we are part of a vast ancient prospiracy to awaken humanity to its spiritual greatness and create a movement of solidarity that brings about a next age of conscious evolution.
- 2019 March 19, Chase Mielke, The Burnout Cure: Learning to Love Teaching Again, ASCD, →ISBN, page 146:
- In my positive psychology class, I have student mentors who help lead small groups. One of the challenges I give each mentor is to create a "prospiracy" for someone in their group who could use a boost. You're familiar with conspiracies, which are organized, secret commitments to do wrong. A prospiracy keeps the organized secrecy part but swaps evil for good.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:prospiracy.
Antonyms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Grant Barrett (2007 January 15) “prospiracy”, in Double-Tongued Dictionary[2], archived from the original on September 20, 2021