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abetter

  • a variation of abettor.
    abettor
    noun
    a person who abets.
  • a word derived from abet.
    abet
    verb (used with object)
    to encourage, support, or countenance by aid or approval, usually in wrongdoing.

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The judge's order also cited KKR as an "aider and abetter" in the flawed auction process and said it could be targeted for monetary damages.

From Reuters Feb. 15, 2011

They occasionally raised themselves on their hind-legs to get abetter view.

From The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

The king, thinking that he had been stimulated by some other person to act as he had done, demanded who was his abetter, to which he replied, My own conscience alone.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

And Miss Sophia answered all this artfulness firmly, even sternly, as if she were an able abetter, standing ready to carry out the dark, deeply laid plot.

From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Nancy Huston Banks

He had no more sense than Tom-fool, the abetter of follies.

From The Goose Girl by Harold MacGrath