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abet
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  • Miss Ramirez, that had better not have been you abetting these hoodlums.†  (source)
    abetting = assisting or encouraging (usually in some wrongdoing)
  • But Michael was different, because the white world had so unusually aided and abetted his rise.†  (source)
    abetted = assisted or encouraged (usually in some wrongdoing)
  • Do you know the universal penalty for aiding and abetting such a killer?†  (source)
    abetting = assisting or encouraging (usually in some wrongdoing)
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  • The South wanted industries, and Northern monopolies, abetted by Northern congressmen, wouldn't allow it.†  (source)
    abetted = assisted or encouraged (usually in some wrongdoing)
  • Aiding and abetting anyone wanted for murder is a serious offence.†  (source)
    abetting = assisting or encouraging (usually in some wrongdoing)
  • I've called devoted Desi to my aid (and abet).†  (source)
  • "The fact is," wrote Lord Rawdon, "their army is broken all to pieces, and the spirit of their leaders and their abettors is all broken....I think one may venture to pronounce that it is well nigh over with them."†  (source)
    abettors = people who assist or encourage
  • She reads entirely too much—" this to Marilla as the little girls went out—"and I can't prevent her, for her father aids and abets her.†  (source)
    abets = assists or encourages (usually in some wrongdoing)
  • The cruelty of which he had been an unwilling witness, the coarse and ruffianly behaviour of Squeers even in his best moods, the filthy place, the sights and sounds about him, all contributed to this state of feeling; but 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, and felt, for the moment, as though the mere consciousness of his present situation must, through all time to come, prevent his raising his head again.†  (source)
    abettor = one who assists or encourages (usually in some wrongdoing)
  • Maybe he had fallen for my flimsy excuse, aided and abetted by a pool boy who happened to be in the right place at what, for me anyway, turned out to be the wrong time.†  (source)
    abetted = assisted or encouraged (usually in some wrongdoing)
  • She is guilty of aiding and abetting an enemy of the gods.†  (source)
    abetting = assisting or encouraging (usually in some wrongdoing)
  • It is vital that we spend our tax dollars on helping Arizonans and not aid and abet illegal aliens.†  (source)
  • ...We have guarded their homes and property long enough, now is the time for action....The only way to put down this rebellion is to hurt the instigators and abettors of it.†  (source)
    abettors = people who assist or encourage
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