different between abettor vs coadjutor

English

Alternative forms

• abetter

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman abettour, from Old French abeter + -our (“-or”). See abet.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??b?t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??b?t?/, /-te/, /-??/
• Rhymes: -?t?, -?t?(?)
• Hyphenation: abet?tor

Noun

abettor (plural abettors)

1. One that abets an offender; one that incites; instigates; encourages. [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]
   • 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece,^[1]

     Thou foul abettor! thou notorious bawd!

     Thou plantest scandal and displacest laud:

2. A supporter or advocate. [Late 16^th century.]
   • 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, Chapter 8,^[2]

     […] 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 […]

Synonyms

• accessory
• accomplice
• advocate
• aid
• ally
• assistant
• confederate
• cooperator
• helper

Usage notes

• Abettor is usually used in a legal sense.
• abettor, accessory, accomplice. These words denote different degrees of complicity in some deed or crime.
• An abettor is one who incites or encourages to the act, without sharing in its performance.
• An accessory supposes a principal offender. One who is neither the chief actor in an offense, nor present at its performance, but accedes to or becomes involved in its guilt, either by some previous or subsequent act, as of instigating, encouraging, aiding, or concealing, etc., is an accessory.
• An accomplice is one who participates in the commission of an offense, whether as principal or accessory. Thus in treason, there are no abettors or accessories, but all are held to be principals or accomplices.
• (supporter): Nowadays it usually refers to a reprehensible act that is supported.

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Anagrams

• taboret

English

Etymology

From Old French coadjuteur, from Latin coadi?tor, from co- + adi?tor (“helper”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k????d?u?t?/, /k???ad??t?/

Noun

coadjutor (plural coadjutors)

1. An assistant or helper.
   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country, Nebraska 2005, pp. 206-7:

     The mountaineer, with all his pulses aquiver, looked down into his coadjutor’s white, startled face.

   • 1924, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 12, [1]

     Hitherto I have been but the witness, little more; and I should hardly think now to take another tone, that of your coadjutor, for the time, did I not perceive in you,—at the crisis too—a troubled hesitancy, proceeding, I doubt not, from the clash of military duty with moral scruple—scruple vitalized by compassion.

2. (ecclesiastical) An assistant to a bishop.
   • 1842 John Henry Newman - The Ecclesiastical History of M. L'abbé Fleury:

     When old age rendered any Bishop unable to perform his duties, the first example of which occurs AD 211, when Alexander became coadjutor to Narcissus at Jerusalem

   • 2005 James Martin Estes - Peace, Order and the Glory of God:

     August then appointed Prince George III of Anhalt (who was both a theologian and a priest as well as a prince) to be his coadjutor in spiritual matters.

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Spanish

Noun

coadjutor m (plural coadjutores)

1. coadjutor