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Oates   /oʊts/   Listen
Oates

noun
1.
English conspirator who claimed that there was a Jesuit plot to assassinate Charles II (1649-1705).  Synonym: Titus Oates.
2.
United States writer (born in 1938).  Synonym: Joyce Carol Oates.





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"Oates" Quotes from Famous Books



... doctor had gone home and looked up an old county history, to find that up to Waterloo year there had still been standing in the pretty little hamlet of Beechfield, a small Elizabethan manor-house which had figured in the Titus Oates conspiracy. ...
— What Timmy Did • Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes


Words linked to "Oates" :   Joyce Carol Oates, Titus Oates, conspirator, plotter, machinator, author, coconspirator, writer


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