abettor
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of abettor
From the Anglo-French word abettour, dating back to 1505–15. See abet, -or 2
Example Sentences
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Anyone who isn’t against this drumbeat of unredressed wrong is exposed as a guilty abettor.
From Washington Post • May 30, 2020
“The aider and abettor is legally responsible for the acts of other persons that are the natural and probable consequences of the crime in which he intentionally participated.”
From Slate • Mar. 5, 2019
In the book, Starr depicts Susan McDougal — who served prison time for her conviction — as a disdainful abettor of the Clintons, a designation that baffles her to this day.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 11, 2018
The report says Rodchenkov is “an aider and abettor of the doping activities” and “at the heart of the positive drug test cover-up.”
From Washington Times • Nov. 9, 2015
It finds in nature an aid and abettor; it grows angry at the disproportionate place which the Cephissus, the Arno, the Seine, the Rhine, and the Thames hold on the map of the world's passion.
From Noah Webster American Men of Letters by Scudder, Horace E.
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