abetment

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

First attested from 1350 to 1470, from Middle English abettement, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French abeter + -ment. See abet.

Mr. Dunnaker replied that he had, though with much difficulty, appeased her anger against him for his supposed abetment of Paul's excesses, and that of late she had held sundry conversations with Dummie respecting our hero himself. — Paul Clifford — Complete, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

abettal, instigation

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