All 6 Uses of
stratagem
in
Middlemarch
- I set a bad example—married a poor clergyman, and made myself a pitiable object among the De Bracys—obliged to get my coals by stratagem, and pray to heaven for my salad oil.†
Chpt 1 *
- Necessity excused stratagem, but stratagem was limited by the dread of offending Dorothea.†
Chpt 4
- Necessity excused stratagem, but stratagem was limited by the dread of offending Dorothea.†
Chpt 4
- But the stratagem was defeated by the weather.†
Chpt 4
- Sir James, glancing at her, repented of his stratagem; but Mrs. Cadwallader, equal to all occasions, spread the palms of her hands outward and said—"Heaven grant it, my dear!†
Chpt 6
- She simply continued to be mild in her temper, inflexible in her judgment, disposed to admonish her husband, and able to frustrate him by stratagem.†
Chpt Fin.
Definition:
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(stratagem) a planned way of achieving an end -- especially in dealing with others and often involving deceit or some kind of trick