What is "abettors"

Usage examples of "abettors".

But the Americans and their abettors were not content with defensive law.

The troops of ladies were off to bereave themselves of their fashionable imitation old lace adornment, which denounced them in some sort abettors and associates of the sanguinary loathed wretch, Mrs.

CHAPTER XLIX LAETITIA AND SIR WILLOUGHBY We cannot be abettors of the tribes of imps whose revelry is in the frailties of our poor human constitution.

Lincoln was certain that the message, however much it ill-used one officer, would get through to the officer class at Antietam, to their instigators and abettors in the Democratic ranks, and to George McClellan himself.