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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
counterplot .
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Examples
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In no other way can be explained the madness which sped the victims of that tragedy to their ruin; for with the enemy at their very gates, the Muslims set up and displaced kings, plotted and counterplotted.
The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia 1919
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She not only watched complacently the butcheries of Alva, but she plotted and counterplotted, now offering aid to the Prince of
The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910
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Snares had been laid for him in vain; every wile had proved abortive, every plot had been counterplotted.
Memorials and Other Papers — Complete Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Snares had been laid for him in vain; every wile had proved abortive, every plot had been counterplotted.
Memorials and Other Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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By this fellow's means, I have counterplotted all his master's fine schemes.
St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801
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By this fellow’s means, I have counterplotted all his master’s fine schemes.
Saint Ronan's Well 2008
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Prudentia had counterplotted us, and had bespoke on the same evening the puppet-show of 'The Creation of the World.' [
The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 George A. Aitken
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