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/ɪntrˈig/ /ˈɪntrig/ Listen

noun

Intrigue n.

Intricacy; complication. (Obs.)

A complicated plot or scheme intended to effect some purpose by secret artifice; conspiracy; stratagem. "Busy meddlers with intrigues of state."

The plot of a play or romance; a complicated scheme of designs, actions, and events.

A secret and illicit love affair between two persons of different sexes; an amour; a liaison. "The hero of a comedy is represented victorious in all his intrigues."

Synonyms: Plot; scheme; conspiracy; machination.

verb

Intrigue v. t. To fill with artifice and duplicity; to complicate; to embarrass. (Obs.) "How doth it (sin) perplex and intrique the whole course of your lives!"

Intrigue v. i. (past & past part. intrigued; pres. part. intriguing)

To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.

To carry on a secret and illicit love or amour.

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Etymology of 'Intrigue'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Intrigue" Quotes from Famous Books

... was a foreigner, and almost friendless—unlucky, indeed, in the choice of the few friends I possessed. Chief of them was the Marquis de Beauvais, concerning whom I soon made two discoveries—that he was in the thick of an intrigue against the republic I served, and its First Consul, and that he was in love with Marie de ...

— The World's Greatest Books, Vol VI. • Various

... Kheyr-ed-Din was not; he was no bragger or boaster, and, whatever may have been his mental reservations in his interview with the Sultan, that which he stated he would do, that he did. And now the time had come when the grim old Sea-wolf had done with intrigue and the unaccustomed atmosphere of a Court and went back to ...

— Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean • E. Hamilton Currey

... bit, tenderly questioning her, his face blazing with righteous wrath, and darkening with his wider knowledge as she told on to the end, and showed him plainly the black heart of the villain who had dared so diabolical a conspiracy; and the inhumanity of the woman who had helped in the intrigue against her own sister,—nay even instigated it. His feelings were too deep for utterance. He was shaken to the depths. His new comprehension of Kate's character was confirmed at the worst. Marcia could only guess his deep feelings ...

— Marcia Schuyler • Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

... tower, where I sit above the loud complaining of the human sea, I know many souls that toss and whirl and pass, but none there are that intrigue me more than ...

— Darkwater - Voices From Within The Veil • W. E. B. Du Bois

... the harvest of the young man's excursion, in the shape of first-hand records of war and government—of intrigue and of sedition, followed by stern retributive chastisement—from that famous soldier, autocratic ...

— Deadham Hard • Lucas Malet

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