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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

He must, it was thought, be their aider and abetter, or else indifferent to what occurred on his estates.

From Vineta The Phantom City by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

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

From The Goose Girl by Harold MacGrath

Her most active ally was her husband, whom she had long before summoned to Paris, and who was the abetter of her intrigue.

From Marie Antoinette and Her Son by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

It is one which assumes that man is the author and abetter of all these wrongs, and that he must be restrained and regulated by constitutions and laws, as the chief and most trustworthy method.

From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton