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abettors

abettors is the plural of abettor.

Meaning of abettor

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

Phrases with abettors

Questions about abettors

What is abettors the plural of?
Abettors is the plural of abettor.

Words near abettors in the dictionary

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

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