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What is an abettor?

What is an abettor? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. One that abets an offender; one that incites; instigates; encourages. [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]
  2. A supporter or advocate. [Late 16th century.]
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He was her father's friend, but she hated him, and immediately she imagined him the abettor.
Whether an accomplice is described as an aider, abettor, counsellor, or procurer seems to depend partly on ordinary language, and partly on specific judicial decisions.
Is it to forsake the slave when I cease to be the aider and abettor of his master?
Instantly to turn upon me, charging that I have no sense of the enormity of the crime itself, but am its aider and abettor!
An abettor is a person who intentionally induces another person to commit an intentional unlawful act.
Of course, old Mole was represented as Harkaway's chief adviser, and his aider and abettor in the late pasha's death.

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