Example Sentences

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The judge's order also cited KKR as an "aider and abetter" in the flawed auction process and said it could be targeted for monetary damages.

From Reuters • Feb. 15, 2011

Her most active ally was her husband, whom she had long before summoned to Paris, and who was the abetter of her intrigue.

From Marie Antoinette and Her Son by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

Madnes nor folly, and add lust to them, Durst not in fury, heate, or Ignorans, Have tempted my unquestioned chastity Without a fowrth abetter, jealousy.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

They occasionally raised themselves on their hind-legs to get abetter view.

From The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Darwin, Charles

And Miss Sophia answered all this artfulness firmly, even sternly, as if she were an able abetter, standing ready to carry out the dark, deeply laid plot.

From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Banks, Nancy Huston