1823,John Galt,Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters[1]:
Those who would exalt themselves byabetting the strength of the Godless, and the wrength of the oppressors.
1851, Charles G. Davis,Report of the Proceedings at the Examination of Charles G. Davis, Esq., on the Charge of Aiding and Abetting in the Rescue of a Fugitive Slave,page39:
The Statute provides that whoever has been engaged in aiding,abetting, or assisting,directly or indirectly, is criminal.
In the matter of Treason the pig would appear / To have aided, but scarcelyabetted: / While the charge of Insolvency fails, it is clear, If you grant the plea ‘never indebted.
2023 February 17, Michelle Goldberg, “What Fox News Says When You’re Not Listening”, inThe New York Times[2],→ISSN:
The brief, a motion for summary judgment in a case stemming from Fox’s egregiously false claims of Dominion-abetted election fraud, offers a portrait of extravagant cynicism.
The elements, however,abetted me in making a path through the deepest snow in the woods, for when I had once gone through the wind blew the oak leaves into my tracks, where they lodged, and by absorbing the rays of the sun melted the snow, and so not only made a dry bed for my feet, but in the night their dark line was my guide.
Later some of these artistic friends[…]abetted this ecclesiastical view in so far as they renounced pre-Raphaelism and learned to love the baroque; but that was an aesthetic fashion also, and corrupt,[…]
2017 September 27, David Browne, “Hugh Hefner, 'Playboy' Founder, Dead at 91”, inRolling Stone[4], archived fromthe original on2017-09-28:
By the early Seventies, Playboy was selling seven million copies a month and Hefner's globe-trotting lifestyle wasabetted by his private jet, the Big Bunny, that contained a circular bed, an inside disco and a wet bar.
^Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors),Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998],→ISBN), page 2
^Elliott K. Dobbie, C. William Dunmore, Robert K. Barnhart, et al. (editors),Chambers Dictionary of Etymology (Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2004 [1998],→ISBN), page 6
