different between promoter vs abettor
promoter
English
Etymology
promote +? -er
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??t?(?)
Noun
promoter (plural promoters)
- One who promotes, particularly with respect to entertainment events or goods.
- (genetics) The section of DNA that controls the initiation of RNA transcription as a product of a gene.
- An accelerator of catalysis that is not itself a catalyst.
Derived terms
- promoterless
Translations
Anagrams
- Portmore, premotor, protomer
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
promoter
- imperative of promotere
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abettor
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)
- 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:
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece,[1]
- A supporter or advocate. [Late 16th 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 […]
- 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, Chapter 8,[2]
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.
Translations
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Anagrams
- taboret
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