Both Uses of
conspiracy
in
Middlemarch
- To her it seemed that there was a Garth conspiracy to get possession of the desirable Fred, but she dared not enlarge on this opinion, because a slight hint of it had made him "fly out" at her as he had never done before.†
Chpt 6 *conspiracy = a secret agreement or plot
- If the invitations had been accepted she would have gone to invite her mamma and the rest, whom she had seen nothing of for several days; and she now put on her bonnet to go and inquire what had become of them all, suddenly feeling as if there were a conspiracy to leave her in isolation with a husband disposed to offend everybody.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
a secret agreement or plot -- especially to do something illegal or harmful