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Definition
typically plural: a crafty and involved plot to achieve usually sinister ends; or the process of creating the plot
- But Mrs. Morland knew so little of lords and baronets, that she entertained no notion of their general mischievousness, and was wholly unsuspicious of danger to her daughter from their machinations.Chapter 2 (12% in)
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