Abetment
to encourage, support, or countenance by aid or approval, usually in wrongdoing:
to abet a swindler; to abet a crime.
historical examples
with the aid and abetment of a bottle of excellent montrachet, however, one contrived to worry through.
red masquerade louis joseph vance
now esther herself was offering her own abetment in almost the same terms.
the prisoner alice brown
then follows a chapter on abetment, in other words, the instigation of a person to do a wrongful act.
encyclopaedia britannica, 11th edition, volume 7, slice 6 various
verb abets, abetting, abetted
(transitive) to -ssist or encourage, esp in crime or wrongdoing
v.
late 14c. (implied in abetting), from old french abeter “to bait, to har-ss with dogs,” literally “to cause to bite,” from a- “to” (see ad-) + beter “to bait,” from a germanic source, perhaps low franconian betan “incite,” or old norse beita “cause to bite,” from proto-germanic -baitjan, from pie root -bheid- “to split” (see fissure). related: abetted; abetting.
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