What is another word for abettors?

Pronunciation: [ɐbˈɛtəz] (IPA)

Abettors are individuals who assist or support in the commission of a crime. Synonyms for abettors include accomplices, collaborators, co-conspirators, cohorts, confederates, partners-in-crime, and accessories. These terms all refer to people who actively aid, encourage, or facilitate criminal activity. Accomplices are those who actively participate in criminal acts, while collaborators work with others to plan and carry out criminal activities. Co-conspirators are people who plan a crime together and then execute it, while cohorts and confederates refer to close associates or partners who aid in illegal activities. Partners-in-crime are individuals who work together to commit crimes, while accessories provide material support for criminal activities.

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Usage examples for Abettors

He wrote The Secret History of One Year-the year after William's accession-vindicating the King's clemency towards the abettors of the arbitrary government of James, and explaining that he was compelled to employ many of them by the rapacious scrambling of his own adherents for places and pensions.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
"So far from demons and malign spirits being the friends and abettors of the alchymist, they are the continual foes with which he has to contend.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
Instead of being abettors in their father's crimes, they have, and do still, maintain a most firm stand in defence of me.
"Marital Power Exemplified in Mrs. Packard's Trial, and Self-Defence from the Charge of Insanity"
Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard

Famous quotes with Abettors

  • In one point, and that too of more importance than is generally attached to it, the puritans of the two epochs bear a critical resemblance, namely, their hostility to rural and athletic sports: to those sports, which string the nerves and strengthen the frame, which excite an emulation in deeds of hardihood and valour, and which imperceptibly instill honour, generosity, and a love of glory, into the mind of the clown. Men thus formed are pupils unfit for the puritanical school; therefore it is, that the sect are incessantly labouring to eradicate, fibre by fibre, the last poor remains of English manners. And, sorry I am to tell you, that they meet with but too many abettors, where they ought to meet with resolute foes. Their pretexts are plausible: gentleness and humanity are the cant of the day. Weak men are imposed on, and wise men want the courage to resist. Instead of preserving those assemblages and those sports, in which the nobleman mixed with his peasants, which made the poor man proud of his inferiority, and created in his breast a personal affection for his lord, too many of the rulers of this land are now hunting the common people from every scene of diversion, and driving them to a club or a conventicle, at the former of which they suck in the delicious rudiments of earthly equality, and, at the latter, the no less delicious doctrine, that there is no lawful king but King Jesus.
    William Cobbett
  • Let Southern oppressors tremble — let their secret abettors tremble — let their Northern apologists tremble — let all the enemies of the persecuted blacks tremble.
    William Lloyd Garrison

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