Abettor
a person who .
Historical Examples
It was the friend of human liberty and the abettor of tyranny.
A Short History of Monks and Monasteries Alfred Wesley Wishart
He found an abettor in the person of the Portuguese pianist, to whom he laid bare his soul.
Melomaniacs James Huneker
And this I vow, that if again you squeak I will have you tried as being an abettor of this treason.’
The Fifth Queen Crowned Ford Madox Ford
What would he not give, or say, or do, to find me his aider and abettor?
Lord Kilgobbin Charles Lever
Instantly to turn upon me, charging that I have no sense of the enormity of the crime itself, but am its aider and abettor!
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens
He was her father’s friend, but she hated him, and immediately she imagined him the abettor.
Yonder Emily Hilda Young
If present, though only to stand outside and keep watch against surprise, one is an abettor, and not an accessory.
English Synonyms and Antonyms James Champlin Fernald
She might be accused of having been an abettor in the plot from the first!
East Lynne Mrs. Henry Wood
Is it to forsake the slave when I cease to be the aider and abettor of his master?
William Lloyd Garrison Archibald H. Grimke
The mother, in her own despite, became an abettor in all this juggling.
La Sorcire: The Witch of the Middle Ages Jules Michelet
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temporary inactivity, cessation, or suspension: Let’s hold that problem in abeyance for a while. Law. a state or condition of real property in which title is not as yet vested in a known titleholder: an estate in abeyance. Contemporary Examples The court will then hold the eleven felony allocutions in abeyance. Inside the ‘PayPal 14’ […]
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