conspiration
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Etymology
Origin of conspiration
1275–1325; Middle English conspiracioun < Anglo-French; Middle French conspiration < Latin conspīrātiōn- (stem of conspīrātiō ), equivalent to conspīrāt ( us ) (past participle of conspīrāre to conspire ) + -iōn- -ion
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In December, Napoleon hurried to Paris, crushed Malet's conspiration against him, and called for a new conscription of three hundred and fifty thousand men.
From The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 by Various
And if, by some marvellous conspiration of providences, Scotland passed through all this without ruin, was Knox prepared to face the more tremendous responsibilities of success?
From John Knox by A. Taylor Innes
They were about. xl. which had made this conspiration.
From The first New Testament printed in English by
The conspiration now framed an accusation against me of a conduct which I had never conceived even in idea, of rendering assistance to Rajah Cheyt Sing.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 08 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
Briefly, in such a world without order and array, owing nothing, lending nothing, and borrowing nothing, you would see a more dangerous conspiration than that which Aesop exposed in his Apologue.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Peter Anthony Motteux
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