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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



... entirely mistaken, sir," replied the reeve, with affected astonishment. "I have seen nothing whatever of the old hag, and would rather lend a hand to her capture than abet her flight. I hold all witches in abhorrence, and Mother Chattox ...
— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth

... be my second against Acton, and I didn't want your captaincy to aid or abet me in a thing which is ...
— Acton's Feud - A Public School Story • Frederick Swainson

... to endure. Here am I, riding back to our home to eat the bread of disappointment, leaving her, for whom I would gladly die, to the temptations of the Court. She will listen to the wooing of some gallant, and my Lady Pembroke will abet it, and then—' ...
— Penshurst Castle - In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney • Emma Marshall

... Abate (speed) malakceli. Abbey abatejo. Abbot abato. Abbreviate mallongigi. Abdicate demeti la regxecon. Abdomen ventro. Abduct forrabi. Abduction forrabo. Abed lite. Aberration spiritvagado. Abet kunhelpi. Abhor malamegi. Abhorrence malamego. Abide logxi (resti). Ability lerteco. Ability talento. Abject humilega. Abjure malkonfesi, forjxuri. Ablative ablativo. Able, to be povi. Able (skilful) lerta. Abnegation memforgeso. Aboard en sxipo. Abode logxejo. ...
— English-Esperanto Dictionary • John Charles O'Connor and Charles Frederic Hayes

... I am not ready to abet and whet their wisdom: as if they had not yet enough of wiseacres, whose voices grate ...
— Thus Spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None • Friedrich Nietzsche

... exclaimed, breaking away from him, "fear nothing from the next world—the earth contains living fiends, who can act for themselves without assistance, were the whole host that fell with Lucifer to return to aid and abet them." ...
— Rob Roy, Complete, Illustrated • Sir Walter Scott



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



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