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Abet   Listen
verb
Abet  v. t.  (past & past part. abetted; pres. part. abetting)  
1.
To instigate or encourage by aid or countenance; used in a bad sense of persons and acts; as, to abet an ill-doer; to abet one in his wicked courses; to abet vice; to abet an insurrection. "The whole tribe abets the villany." "Would not the fool abet the stealth, Who rashly thus exposed his wealth?"
2.
To support, uphold, or aid; to maintain; in a good sense. (Obs.). "Our duty is urged, and our confidence abetted."
3.
(Law) To contribute, as an assistant or instigator, to the commission of an offense.
Synonyms: To incite; instigate; set on; egg on; foment; advocate; countenance; encourage; second; uphold; aid; assist; support; sustain; back; connive at.





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"Abet" Quotes from Famous Books



... hills. What shall I do? It is not to be borne that all this wealth should increase and multiply, to feed the mouths of thieves and rogues. Often have I resolved to drive off my cattle into a far country, and no longer to abet these men in their riotous living; but my duty to Telemachus, and the hope that even now my lord may return, still hold ...
— Stories from the Odyssey • H. L. Havell
... the law of nature, or to the true principles of the Christian religion, or that it is noxious to the community; and I do sincerely promise and engage, before God, that I never will, by any conspiracy, contrivance, or political device whatever, attempt, or abet others in any attempt, to subvert the constitution of the church of England, as the same is now by law established, and that I will not employ any power or influence, which I may derive from any office corporate, or any other office which I hold, or shall hold, ...
— Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke. • Edmund Burke


Words linked to "Abet" :   abetter, abettal, abettor, assist


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