Both Uses of
conspiracy
in
Great Expectations
- I had sadly broken sleep when I got to bed, through thinking of the strange man taking aim at me with his invisible gun, and of the guiltily coarse and common thing it was, to be on secret terms of conspiracy with convicts,—a feature in my low career that I had previously forgotten.†
Chpt 10 *
- It has been supposed that the man to whom she gave her misplaced confidence acted throughout in concert with her half-brother; that it was a conspiracy between them; and that they shared the profits.†
Chpt 22
Definition:
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(conspiracy) a secret agreement or plot -- especially to do something illegal or harmful