Both Uses
machinations
in
King Lear
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- We have seen the best of our time: machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders follow us disquietly to our graves.†
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- If you miscarry, Your business of the world hath so an end, And machination ceases.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(machinations) typically plural: a crafty and involved plot to achieve usually sinister ends; or the process of creating the plot
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)