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Definition of Counterplot
1. Noun. A plot intended to subvert another plot.
2. Verb. Make a plot in response to another plot.
Definition of Counterplot
1. v. t. To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.
2. n. A plot or artifice opposed to another.
Definition of Counterplot
1. Noun. A plot made in opposition to another; a counterploy. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive transitive) To form a plot or plan in opposition to the actions of another. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Counterplot
1. [v -PLOTTED, -PLOTTING, -PLOTS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Counterplot
Literary usage of Counterplot
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1883)
"So saying, she left the vestry, leaving the miserable clergyman plunged in
desolation, and more dead than alive. CHAPTER XVII. counterplot. ..."
2. Old Court Life in France by Frances Elliot (1893)
"PLOT AND counterplot. MEANWHILE, Madame de Montespan expatiated to all the Court
on the impossibility of an alliance between Mademoiselle and the Comte de ..."
3. Feats on the fiord by Harriet Martineau (1883)
"PLOT AND counterplot. JHE comrades who were waiting and watching on the point
were duly amazed to see three heads in the boat, on her return; ..."
4. Western Lands and Western Waters by Friedrich Gerstäcker (1864)
"A counterplot. " * ND you believe that rubbish, sir ?" the lady asked, and hurled -L\.
the crumpled paper at the bridegroom's head. ..."
5. A New History of the Conquest of Mexico: In which Las Casas' Denunciations by Wilson, Robert Anderson, 1812- (1859)
"Advantage of having the person of Montezuma,—A probable plot and counterplot,
392—The Spaniards and Indians both doubtless designing treachery, 394—Fabulous ..."
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