conspiration

[ kon-spuh-rey-shuhn ]

noun

1. joint effort.
2. Obsolete. conspiracy.

Other Words From

• conspi·ration·al adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of conspiration¹

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

Example Sentences

Bien qu'�trangers � toute conspiration, leur vertu les fit soup�onner d'�tre peu favorables � Commode; ils furent proscrits et moururent ensemble comme ils avaient v�cu.

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A hundred times better it is to remain a colony as long as the Supreme Ruler of the world will so order, than to attempt to break through by the dark plot of an infamous conspiration.

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Archaic or unusual words and spellings have not been changed: beneficient, coronated, consolated, conspiration, devotedness, divers, elogius, enflame, enounced, equilibrist, eulogium, fervously, injustifiable, irresistable, instil, Magna Charta, planturous, plebiscit, plebiscitary, preconized, profonated, Roumanian, Servia, subtilties, tragical, treasonably, troublous, tutorage, unbiassed, uncontrovertible, unsufficiently, woful.

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Proc�s instruit par la cour de justice criminelle contre Georges, Pichegru, Moreau et autres pr�venus de conspiration contre la personne du Premier Consul.

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Of this kind was the Conspiration de Walstein of Sarrasin, which, though incomplete, is admirable in style.

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