machination

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It seemed a vile machination, and I scornfully rejected all overtures for separation, proclaiming my resolution to assert and maintain my rights as a lawful wife.

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  1. noun The act of plotting.
  2. noun A crafty scheme or cunning design for the accomplishment of a sinister end.

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  • It seemed a vile machination, and I scornfully rejected all overtures for separation, proclaiming my resolution to assert and maintain my rights as a lawful wife. —  Infelice
  • Never was frail and trembling mortal less prepared to encounter with machination, and to brave unheard of dangers. —  Imogen A Pastoral Romance
  • Should I not be sufficiently avenged by a contemptuous forgetfulness of the wrongs I have suffered Personally, madame, you may forgive and forget; but I have the honor to repeat to you, that society cannot show the same indulgence, if it should turn out that you have been the victim of a criminal machination--and I have every reason to fear it is so. —  The Wandering Jew — Volume 06
  • "Evil/utukku/, evil/ âlû/, evil/ êdimmu/, evil/ gallu/, evil god, evil/ rabisu/,/ labartu/,/ labasu/,/ âhhazu/,/ lilu/,/ lilithu/, handmaid of/ lilu/, sorcery, enchantment, magic, disaster, machination which is not good -- may they not set their head to his head, their hand to his hand, their foot to his foot -- may they not draw near. —  The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
  • This was their machination, adding crime to crime, as it is said, "The last error shall be worse than the first But the divine mercy, which always delights to aid the innocent, frustrated in great part the wicked design of the wicked men, so that it should not turn out in every respect as they had proposed. —  The Life of King Alfred
 

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  1. = Old French machinacion, French machination = Provencal machinaionSpanish maquinacion = Portuguese maquinação = Italian macchinazione, from Latin machinatio(n-), from machinari, contrive: see machinate.
 

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/mækɪˈneɪʃən/
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