Associations to the word «Abetment»

Wiktionary

ABETMENT, noun. The act of abetting; instigating; inciting; encouraging. [First attested from 1350 to 1470.]

Dictionary definition

ABETMENT, noun. The verbal act of urging on.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope