单词 | abettance |
释义 | abettancen. = abetment n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > support > support or encouragement > [noun] comfort?c1225 encourage1535 encouragement1550 comfortation1552 countenance1576 cover1581 couragement1603 patronage1610 abettance1781 championship1840 moral support1852 fautorship1863 affirmation1966 1781 J. Andrews Two Additional Lett. 27 They had before stood in some dread of the resentment of Great Britain, for their abettance of the Americans. 1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein III. v. 128 The affray at La Ferette..had no origin or abettance from us. 1835 Fraser's Mag. 11 347/1 In the Roman Catholic Church of Ireland, the rewards are..for connivance, if not absolute abettance, of the foulest and most atrocious crimes. 1893 Emporia (Kansas) Daily Gaz. 12 May Two young medical students..brought home from the hospital dissecting-room a man's arm..and, with the abettance of some young ladies in the house, concealed it in the victim's bed. 1958 Times 3 June 13/3 An evening devoted to music for a quartet of horns with the abettance only of trombone and bassoon. 1999 Houston Chron. (Nexis) 17 Oct. (Outlook) 2 He also knows he stands to receive enormous aid and abettance from organized labor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1781 |
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