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/əˈbɛtə/ · noun
One that abets an offender; one that incites; instigates; encourages..
Thou foul abettor! thou notorious bawd! Thou plantest scandal and displacest laud:
[…] 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 […]
Use abettor when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Abettor means One that abets an offender; one that incites; instigates; encourages..
Common synonyms include accessory, accomplice, advocate, aid.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Thou foul abettor! thou notorious bawd! Thou plantest scandal and displacest laud:
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