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prospiracy en · NOUN

Etymology

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.

Meanings

1. (nonce-word, rare) A secret plan by a group to do something beneficial.
   • 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. 2019 March 19, Chase Mielke, The Burnout Cure: Learning to Love Teaching Again, ASCD, →ISBN, page 146:
   • 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. 2011 March 31, Daniel Pinchbeck, “Daniel Pinchbeck: 10”, in Dazed, archived from the original on 25 Jan 2021:
   • Prospiracy. A Sheep in Wolf's Clothing. [Page heading] 1897, Gelett Burgess, chapter 5, in Vivette: Or, The Memoirs of the Romance Association, 2nd edition, volumes 1–3, Boston: Copeland & Day, page 141:

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conspiracy