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Abettor vs Coadjutor - What's the difference?

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Abettor is a related term of coadjutor.


As nouns the difference between abettor and coadjutor

is that abettor is one that abets an offender; one that incites; instigates; encourages while coadjutor is an assistant or helper.

abettor

English

Alternative forms

* abetter

Noun

(en noun)
  • One that abets an offender; one that incites; instigates; encourages.
  • A supporter or advocate.

    • 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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    coadjutor

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • (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.