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abettor

Syllables: abet·torUK/əˈbɛtə/US/əˈbɛtɚ/

abettor noun: one that abets an offender; one that incites, instigates, or encourages.

Noun

abettor (plural abettors)

  1. One that abets an offender; one that incites, instigates, or encourages.
    • Thou foul abettor! thou notorious bawd!
      Thou plantest scandal and displacest laud:1594, William Shakespeare, Lucrece (First Quarto), London: […] Richard Field, for Iohn Harrison, […], →OCLC
  2. A supporter or advocate.
    • […] 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 […]1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, chapter 8, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC

abettor meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

abettor in Tamil

உடந்தைக் குற்றவாளி, குற்ற உடந்தையர்

abettor in Urdu

حمایتی, معاون جرم

abettor in Malayalam

ദുഷ്‌ക്കർമ്മപ്രരകൻ

Synonyms of abettor

All synonyms of abettor

Forms of abettor

pluralabettors
alternative formabetter

Origin of abettor

From Middle English abettour, from Anglo-Norman abettour, from Old French abeter + -our (“-or”). See abet. By surface analysis, abet + -or.

Words formed from abettor

Words that rhyme with abettor

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Questions about abettor

What does abettor mean?
Abettor means one that abets an offender; one that incites, instigates, or encourages.
What is abettor in Tamil?
Abettor in Tamil is உடந்தைக் குற்றவாளி, குற்ற உடந்தையர். See Abettor meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is abettor?
Abettor is a noun.
How do you pronounce abettor?
Abettor is pronounced /əˈbɛtə/ (UK).
What is the plural of abettor?
The plural of abettor is abettors.

Words near abettor in the dictionary

  1. abettees
  2. abetter
  3. abetters
  4. abetting
  5. abettings
  6. abettor
  7. abettors
  8. abevacuation
  9. abevacuations
  10. abexinostat
  11. abey

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Adapted from Wiktionary: abettor (page history and authors); abettor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); abettor (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); abettor (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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