Definition of "counterplotting" []

• Present participle of counterplot. (verb)

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• "When her husband is murdered outside a house of male prostitution, she joins forces with Christopher Marlowe, famed play maker, her husband's former lover, and frequent spy in his own right, to uncover the plotting and counterplotting that endangers not only her family's solvency, but the security of England."
• "There had been two cabals, plotting and counterplotting after the throne, treading on one another's heels, breathing down one another's necks, and doing anything else to one another that might suggest itself at that range."
• "They looked on each other as sworn enemies, and there was kept up a continual system of plotting and counterplotting."