Gunpowder Plot: Meaning and Definition of

Gun'powder Plot"

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  1. an unsuccessful plot to kill King James I and the assembled Lords and Commons by blowing up Parliament, November 5, 1605, in revenge for the laws against Roman Catholics. Cf. Guy Fawkes Day.
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