intrigue
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intrigue englanniksi
A complicated or clandestine plot or scheme intended to affect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem.
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{{RQ:Carlyle Friedrich
The plot of a play, poem or romance; the series of complications in which a writer involves their imaginary characters.
Clandestine intercourse between persons; illicit intimacy; a liaison or affair.
{{quote-text|en|year=1773|title=The Westminster Magazine, Or, The Pantheon of Taste
(quote-book)|title=(w)|publisher=Macmillan and Co.|year_published=|volume=I|location=London|page=309|passage=Morality at Delli is at as low an ebb as in the far interior of Brazil, and crimes are connived at which would entail infamy and criminal prosecution in Europe. While I was there it was generally asserted and believed in the place, that two officers had poisoned the husbands of women with whom they were carrying on intrigues, and with whom they immediately cohabited on the death of their rivals.
(quote-book)|publisher=Pan Books|location=London|year_published=1954|page=152|passage=He proposed to call witnesses to show how the prisoner, a profligate and spendthrift, had been at the end of his financial tether, and had also been carrying on an intrigue with a certain Mrs. Raikes, a neighbouring farmer’s wife.
{{quote-text|en|year=1976|author=John Harold Wilson|title=Court Satires of the Restoration|page=245
To conceive or carry out a secret plan intended to harm; to form a plot or scheme.
(quote-book) and the Second Opening of the West|publisher=(w)|year=1954|lccn=53009245|oclc=1109805|page=170|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/beyondhundredthm00steg/page/170|text=Scenic illusions such as those caused by the haze, or the apparent diminution of scale where everything was enormous, intrigued Dutton.
(quote-journal)
To have clandestine or illicit intercourse.
To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate.
(RQ:Thomas More Workes)
(quote-book)|year=c. 1681|passage=How doth it sin perplex and intrigue the whole course of your lives!
intrigue (gloss)
plot (gloss)
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