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Counterplot  v. t.  (past & past part. counterplotted; pres. part. counterplotting)  To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem. "Every wile had proved abortive, every plot had been counterplotted."






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"Counterplot" Quotes from Famous Books



... Christ, God's Son; a conflict, whose clangor fills the vaulted skies in heaven with reverberating thunders, ending in defeat for evil which makes all Waterloos insignificant; the fall of Satanic legions from the thrones which once were theirs, when, with dolorous cry, they stumbled into hell; the counterplot of Lucifer; the voyage across the wastes "of chaos and old night;" the horrid birth of Sin; the apocalypse of Sin and Death in Eden; and the Promise, whose pierced hand, held out, saved from utter ...
— A Hero and Some Other Folks • William A. Quayle



Words linked to "Counterplot" :   game, counterplan, plot



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