[f. CONSPIRE + -ING1.] The action of the vb. CONSPIRE; plotting, conspiracy; concurrence, co-operation.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., IV. xiii. (1634), 622. What?… doe wee thinke that hee praiseth a conspiring, whereby a few men being bound together, are severed from the whole body of the Church?
1651. Hobbes, Govt. & Soc., v. § 6. 79. The conspiring of many wills to the same end.
1862. Sir J. B. Burke, Viciss. Families, Ser. III. 322. The King … met those conspirings with demonstrations of equal energy.
