conspiracy

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[156] If he had said no more, it would have been literally true, for the conspiracy was his own; but he went on to relate that the conspiracy was being hatched by the Italians to drive him and the Emperor out of the peninsula.

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  1. noun An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.
  2. noun A group of conspirators.
  3. noun Law An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.
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  • So the conspiracy was to be a facinus and a scelus , and the hero, of course, another 'exalted criminal' in the style of Karl Moor. —  The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller
  • My novel system of sparing the rod and spoiling the children could not fail to provoke the disapproval of the orthodox, and the head of the conspiracy was the father of my lazy schoolboy. —  The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I
  • These accounts reassured readers that the conspiracy was a rare exception that would not happen again-if everyone remained vigilant. —  AvaxHome RSS:
  • The fingerprints of a conspiracy are all there in spades for anyone with half a brain who is willing to study the case. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • Only those involved in the conspiracy are allowed to frame the narrative. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
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  1. Middle English conspiracie, from Anglo-Norman, probably alteration of Old French conspiration, from Latin cōnspīrātiō, cōnspīrātiōn-, from cōnspīrātus, past participle of cōnspīrāre, to conspire; see conspire.

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  1. from Middle English conspiracie, from Old French conspiracie, conspiratie, from Middle Latin as if *conspiratia, from Latin conspirare, past participle conspirutus, conspire: see conspire. Cf. conspiration.
 

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