Definition of Counterplot. Meaning of Counterplot. Synonyms of Counterplot

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Definition of Counterplot

Counterplot
Counterplot Coun`ter*plot" (koun`t?r-pl?t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Counterplotted; p. pr. & vb. n. 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. --De Quinsey.

Meaning of Counterplot from wikipedia

- up counterplot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A counterplot refers to a plot made in opposition to another. It may also refer to: Counterplot (film)...
- The Counterplot is the second novel by Hope Mirrlees. Written in 1923, it was originally published in 1924, and is the only one of Mirrlees's three novels...
- Counterplot is a 1959 American film noir crime film directed by Kurt Neumann and written by Richard Blake. The film stars Forrest Tucker, Allison Hayes...
- He supported Joel McCrea in Fort M****acre (1958) and had the lead in Counterplot (1959). Tucker was cast as Professor Harold Hill in the national touring...
- London and Paris, and whose influence is also found in Madeleine and The Counterplot. The book is dedicated to the memory of Mirrlees's father. In the novel...
- ********ination, eventually collected in The ********ination Chronicles: Inquest, Counterplot, and Legend (1992). His books Legend (1978) and Deception (1989) drew...
- Barbouillé L'Étourdi ou les Contretemps (1655)—The Blunderer, or, the Counterplots Le Dépit amoureux (16 December 1656)—The Love-Tiff Le Docteur amoureux...
- medieval Spanish culture as part of the background of her second novel, The Counterplot (1924). Lud-in-the-Mist was reprinted in 1970 in m****-market paperback...
- other Auguste Dupin stories, with the 1865 thriller "V.V., or Plots and Counterplots." Alcott published the story anonymously and it concerns a Scottish aristocrat...
- obviously capable of the most intricate literary structures—plots and counterplots and symbols that twist and tangle in time and space", but was less impressed...