counterplot
A plot made in opposition to another; a counterploy.
Noun
- A plot made in opposition to another; a counterploy.
Origin
From counter- + plot.
Forms
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Verb
- To form a plot or plan in opposition to the actions of another.
- Every wile had proved abortive, every plot had been counterplotted. - 1832, Thomas De Quincey, Klosterheim Or, the Masque:
- […]for while art made him more than ever reserved to Sophia, and forbad him to address any of his discourse to her, nay, to avoid meeting her eyes, with the utmost caution; nature was no less busy in counterplotting...