Assist in illegality

Usage examples of abet.

I love thee, but I should be an untrue friend did I abet thee in thy lawlessness.

No one could doubt that Philip Augustus would abet his vassal, the Countess of Poitou, in dispositions so well calculated to thwart the Angevin.

I dreamed that night that she had married a professional gambler, who cut her throat in the course of the first six months because the dear child refused to aid and abet his nefarious schemes.

Bal had lent Barrie to us, and without a woman to aid and abet him, it seemed to me that he was powerless.

He was killed in much the same manner as Lord Abet and the other nobles these past months.

Most of all I trust to the generosity of the Hathors, who have abetted me so openly thus far.

Clearly you have aided and abetted a traitor to escape justice, and you will be remanded.

Kuhmbuhluhners on their big horses, aided and abetted, if the tales of the fugitives were to be believed, by bearded Ahrmehnee warriors and even Moon Maidens.

According to it, the Franks, uniting with the barons of Antioch and its fiefs, abetted by certain Knights Templars and whatever forces could be recruited in Tripoli and Jerusalem, would go against Islam in the east and north, rescue Edessa, and repair the bulwarks of Antioch against the danger of invasion.

Even the Templars and the Hospitallers were divided, and the Italian merchant princes abetted one faction or the other as their own interests decreed.

And now I am a recreant, and he who aided and abetted me in my asseverations of independence remains faithful.

Here was my wife, who had secretly aided and abetted her son in his design, and been the recipient of his hopes and fears on the subject, turning to me, who had dared to utter a feeble protest or two only to be scoffed at, and summarily sat upon, asking if the game was really safe.

James abetted him in saying that fifty pounds was not a penny too much to lend on such a treasure.

That quest was abetted by a sympathetic schoolteacher, Rebecca, who saw in the lad a glimmering hope that occasionally there might be resurrection from a bitter life sentence in the emotionally barren and aesthetically vitiated Kentucky hamlet, and who ultimately seduced him.

Hitler and Mussolini was dead, but a new form of it was condoned and abetted abroad by the United States government.