The word 'abettor' is both correct and usable in written English.
An abettor is a person who encourages or assists someone to do something illegal or wrong. For example, "The judge sentenced the abettor to one year in prison for aiding the criminals in their attempts to commit fraud."
(See also accomplice; accessory; and abettor).
An abettor is one kind of accomplice, the other being an accessory, who aids the criminal prior to or after the crime.
I had wanted to check this village out because it was the home town of Rasputin — not Valentin Rasputin, the Siberian writer, but the original unhinged self-described holy man Rasputin, abettor of the downfall of the Romanov line.
As Egypt circles back toward the authoritarian tendencies of its past, the criticism of the international media is not surprising, but the role that the local press has played as an abettor in this is the more dispiriting phenomenon.
In the search warrant for that request, the government described Rosen as "an aider, and abettor, and / or co-conspirator" in violating the Espionage Act, noting that the crime can be punished by ten years in prison.
The Washington Post reported today that, in the course of a leak investigation of a State Department employee who allegedly provided Fox News's James Rosen with classified information, the Obama Justice Department not only subpoenaed Rosen's private e-mails but also said that Rosen was "an aider and abettor and/or co-conspirator" in the alleged crime.
A number of its justices are thought to sympathise with the view that scheme liability is best left to the SEC, which has the power to pursue aiders and abettors under its Rule 10b-5.Some lawyers in Washington even suggest that Mr Cox only sided with investors because he was convinced that they had almost no chance of support from the Supreme Court.
They were used to seize alleged mobsters and their abettors as far north as Novara, near Turin.Evidence amassed included a film taken secretly of a meeting of 'Ndrangheta affiliates near Milan.
On April 14 , 1775 Gage received a letter from Dartmouth informing him that Massachusetts had been declared to be in a state of open revolt and ordering him to "arrest and imprison the principal Actors and Abettors in the [Massachusetts] Provincial Congress".
As brave as these words were, Pierpont's government was struggling "to organize and arm for its defense against the conspirators and usurpers at Richmond and their aiders and abettors" a year into the war.
Why is it that the allies of Washington must always be mocked and demonized for siding with the United States -- a republic and a democracy -- while the abettors (conscious or otherwise) of America's enemies -- such as Saddam Hussein, the psychopathic overlord of a horrific dictatorship -- must be rewarded with descriptions of their "heroic" opposition?
