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DEFINITION: A willingness to wait, forever if necessary, for the perfect opportunity; excessive patience.

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Purpoise

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: purr-poiz

Sentence: In trying to create a verboticism to match today's verbinition, Bob was willing to wait with purpoise.

Etymology: A blend of purpose: a goal; the thing you want to achieve; and poise: a state of calmness, composure, self-controlled under strain or pressure.

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COMMENTS:

if Bob is a porpoise he would be a porpoise with a purpoise - Jabberwocky, 2007-09-11: 12:24:00

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Tiltymezend

Created by: brimuth

Pronunciation: till - time - zend

Sentence: The spouse perfected tiltymezend-ism after many years of waiting for his wife to make up her mind on which dress to buy whenever they went shopping.

Etymology: Until - the end - of time.

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Perpetuism

Created by: Greatoak

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Alex stared at the cloud in a state of perpetuism. Waiting for it to dissolve.

Etymology: Perpetual

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Zencessive

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: zen/cess/ive

Sentence: He has a zencessive personality, constantly in meditation and self-contemplation waiting always for the perfect moment to act. Because of his zencessiveness, he often misses out completely.

Etymology: zen + excessive

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COMMENTS:

Om good! - Scrumpy, 2007-09-11: 13:46:00

You really zend me! Good word - OZZIEBOB, 2007-09-11: 18:41:00

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