All 4 Uses of
conspiracy
in
Gulliver's Travels
- He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting "it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce."†
Chpt 2conspiracies = secret agreements or plots
- Another professor showed me a large paper of instructions for discovering plots and conspiracies against the government.†
Chpt 3 *
- These rogues, whom I had picked up, debauched my other men, and they all formed a conspiracy to seize the ship, and secure me; which they did one morning, rushing into my cabin, and binding me hand and foot, threatening to throw me overboard, if I offered to stir.†
Chpt 4conspiracy = a secret agreement or plot
- I gave him a very short relation of my voyage; of the conspiracy against me by my own men; of the country where they set me on shore, and of my five years residence there.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
a secret agreement or plot -- especially to do something illegal or harmful