DEFINITION: n. The sacrifice a mother makes when she gives everything to her children, including life itself, and then simply lets them go. v. To give someone everything and then watch them walk away.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Giventry: /giv-en-tree/ When she mother gave him the money she would have used to buy a condo in Hawaii to start his business, Bradley was moved to tears by his mother’s giventry. Etymology: From the children’s book, The Giving Tree Created by: thesmeagle.
Nurturifice: /NERT-shur-reh-fice/ Ma Maribel put aside her own wishes as she spent half a lifetime to nurturifice her children, only to watch dry eyed as the left the ‘nest’ to pursue their own interests. Etymology: Blend of the words ‘Nurture’ (rearing, upbringing, training) and ‘Sacrifice’ (the surrender or destruction of something prized or desirable for the sake of something considered as having a higher or more pressing claim) Created by: Mustang.
Kidtropia: /kid-tro-pia/ As summer went on she felt kidtropia looking at her garden from the wheelchair.
True feeling of kidtropia enveloped him as he watched his spaceship leap into the unknown time and space. Etymology: kid, kids. – atrophia (in this case ‘self’ is atrophied in order to make room for needs of the child) Created by: ldikarev.
Parentharsis: /parr-EN-far-siss/ After her son Jack left home to start at university, Mary felt a great sense of parentharsis. Etymology: parent + catharsis (release from strong emotions) Created by: Discoveria.
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