abettor
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
abettor (plural abettors)
- One that abets an offender; one that incites; instigates; encourages. [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece,
- Thou foul abettor! thou notorious bawd!
- Thou plantest scandal and displacest laud:
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece,
- A supporter or advocate. [Late 16th century.]
- 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, Chapter 8,
- […] when he recollected that, being there as an assistant, he actually seemed—no matter what unhappy train of circumstances had brought him to that pass—to be the aider and abettor of a system which filled him with honest disgust and indignation, he loathed himself […]
- 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, Chapter 8,
- French: incitateur, incitatrice
- German: Anstifter, Anstifterin
- Italian: favoreggiatore, favoreggiatrice, istigatore, istigatrice, fiancheggiatore, fiancheggiatrice,, fomentatore, fomentatrice, aizzatore, aizzatrice, agitatore, agitatrice
- Portuguese: incitador
- Russian: подстрека́тель
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