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plural abettors
One that abets an offender; one that incites; instigates; encourages. quotations examples
Thou foul abettor! thou notorious bawd!Thou plantest scandal and displacest laud:
1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […]
A supporter or advocate. quotations examples
[…] when he recollected that, being there as an assistant, he actually seemed—no matter what unhappy train of circumstances had brought him to that pass—to be the aider and abettor of a system which filled him with honest disgust and indignation, he loathed himself […]
1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 8, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839