Penelopize
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penelopize¹
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From Penelope + -ize, from the account in Homer's Odyssey of Penelope, who stalled her many suitors while she wove a shroud which she unraveled nightly to prolong the process.
verb penelopizes · penelopizing · penelopized · penelopise · Penelopise
- To create a delay by undoing what has previously been done, sometimes possibly with the intention of redoing it and repeating this cycle. Diplomacy was still drawing out its lengthened thread — still weaving its long and dilatory web — still Penelopizing — when the same McLeod, the boaster in Canada of his active share in this triple crime of midnight murder, arson, and robbery, crosses over to the American side and repeats, in the he
Penelopize²
verb Penelopizes · Penelopizing · Penelopized
- Alternative form of penelopize.penelopize
