"prospiracy" citation from Double-Tongued Dictionary

Catchword: prospiracy

Filed under: English

Part of speech: n.

The part of speech reflects that used in the full entry, and not necessarily the part of speech as it is used in the quotation below.

Quotation: The notion of plotting evil in secret prompted Mr Stuart Hansman, of Cronulla, to write to Dr W.S.Ramson, editor of the Australian National Dictionary. He felt that there was a huge potential for good in practising the opposite of a conspiracy, that is, a meeting of two or more people to achieve worthy objectives. He could not think of an English word to cover this. He put forward the idea of prospire, prospiracy and prospirator.

Article or Document Title:
“Guilty Parties”

Article, document, publication, web site:
Sydney Morning Herald

Publishing location:
Australia

Date of publication:
Mar. 11, 1989

Page number:
84

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Comments:

I would like to have people , around the world , starting to use the new words "PROSPIRACY" -"PROSPIRE' and "PROSPIRATOR".

I am in the twilight stage of my life [71]and therefore it would be encouraging to see a potentially "good" Word replace a "bad" word -"CONSPIRE/ETC/ETC !"-in both deed and action.
Any thoughts from like-minded "colleagues"?
Let's Go
Stuart Hansman
by Stuart Hansman 07 Mar 08, 1121 GMT