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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

Madnes nor folly, and add lust to them, Durst not in fury, heate, or Ignorans, Have tempted my unquestioned chastity Without a fowrth abetter, jealousy.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen

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

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

I did not know it until, some years afterwards, the story was related to me by the principal actor in it— the abetter of my heretical pravity.

From Personal Recollections Abridged, Chiefly in Parts Pertaining to Political and Other Controversies Prevalent at the Time in Great Britain by Charlotte Elizabeth