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Abet   /əbˈɛt/   Listen
Abet

verb
(past & past part. abetted; pres. part. abetting)
1.
Assist or encourage, usually in some wrongdoing.



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"Abet" Quotes from Famous Books



... "possessing the spirit of a man and the malice of a woman," and whose great aim it was to see the sovereignty of England once more held by the house of which she was a member. She readily consented to abet the sham Earl of Warwick, and furnished Lincoln and Lord Lovel with a body of 2000 German veterans, commanded by an able officer named Martin Schwartz. The countenance given to the movement by persons of such high ...
— Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton • Anonymous


Words linked to "Abet" :   assist


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