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DEFINITION: v. To love someone forever and a day, despite the fact that they have some rather annoying and seemingly intractable imperfections. n. A couple which has been together for a long, long, long time.
Verboticisms
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Foreverbearance
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: for EV er BEAR ance
Sentence: My mother used to say, "Forbearance is one thing, but when I married your father, it was foreverbearance. I will foreverbear whatever I need to, until death do us part."
Etymology: FORBEARANCE: good natured tolerance in the face of provocation FOREVER:
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COMMENTS:
nice word - galwaywegian, 2009-02-13: 09:29:00
very sweet - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-13: 10:22:00
Very nice word, terrific sentiment. - Mustang, 2009-02-13: 19:16:00
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Perpetualove
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: pehr-PET-you-luv
Sentence: Even into their advancing senior years Clarence and Bertha enjoyed each others company and maintained a robust romantic relationship which Clarence celebrated by providing Bertha with expensive, decadent chocolates and Bertha 'encouraged' by spiking his evening cocoa with viagra, preserving both his vitality and his ego...and they lived blissfully ever after.
Etymology: Blend of perpetual and love
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COMMENTS:
great sentence - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-13: 10:29:00
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Perpetulove
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: per-PET-yew-luv
Sentence: Even into their advancing senior years Willard and Beatrice enjoyed each others company and maintained a robust perpetulove which Clarence celebrated by providing Bertha with expensive, decadent chocolates and Bertha 'encouraged' by spiking his evening cocoa with viagra, preserving both his vitality and his ego...and they lived blissfully ever after.
Etymology: Blend of 'perpetual' (never ending) and 'love' (romance, endearment)
Matrimoany
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: mat rim moan ee
Sentence: It's true, thought Louise, marriage is like a deck of cards. You start out with a diamond and 2 hearts and after many years of matrimoany, all you want is a club and a spade!
Etymology: Matrimony (marriage) & Moan (complain, whine)
Duocomplicity
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: do/oh/com/pli/si/tee
Sentence: The secret to the longevity in their marriage was a result of duocomplicity and they thrived forgiving each others innumerable faults.
Etymology: duo + duplicity + complicity
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COMMENTS:
Apt...I just finished reading Hillary's Choice by Gail Sheehy! - readerwriter, 2009-02-13: 09:32:00
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Eralentines
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: eee rah lent eye ns
Sentence: The eralentines were as in love as ever, although what used to be erotic was now erratic.
Etymology: era valentines
Lovever
Created by: sherhzade
Pronunciation: luv-ever
Sentence: Looking into Mat's eyes, Gina knew that she had found her lovever.
Etymology: Love- be attached to or feel affection for + ever - for perpetuity
Couploldhearts
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: cup old hearts
Sentence: They had indeed become a couploldhearts, having endured many decades of marriage. "Agreeing often not to agree" was once their tacit way of pushing through to peace; now they had reached a state of calm complicity, fortunately no longer able to see (or hear, for that matter) each other's follies, quirks and...wrinkles!
Etymology: couploldhearts n. This word is from "couple of old farts" as a way of irreverently referring to an old couple and "hearts".
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COMMENTS:
I like your verbotomy version ever so much better than the old saw! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-13: 13:11:00
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Togetherlasting
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: too - geth - ur - las - ting
Sentence: George and Anita had a togetherlasting love. They had been together forever and it looked like it would last a lifetime. As they hobbled along, with their cane and walker, they still could not take their eyes off each other.
Etymology: Together and Everlasting >> Together (in each other's company,with cooperation and interchange) Everlasting (ageless: continuing forever or indefinitely)
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COMMENTS:
so many sweet stories today - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-13: 10:30:00
Wonderful word! Will use it a lot. Brings to mind the line from a great love song ... 'ageless and evergreen' - silveryaspen, 2009-02-13: 13:17:00
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Comments:
Here is the last "Love Verbotomy" for Valentines week. Now I admit the definition sounds a little like marriage. But hey, every marriage is different, and if the Inuit can have 100 different words for snow, we could use a few more for this type of "relationship". Happy Valentines to all! ~ James
mweinmann - 2009-02-13: 08:14:00
Thanks for all of your wonderful cartoons and definitions and for keeping this all going. I think we would all be blessed if we had this type of relationship.... Happy Valentines Day everyone!!
Thank you mweinmann. And I "heartily" agree, a little bit of acceptance goes a long way towards making love stronger. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by verbotomy. Thank you verbotomy. ~ James