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Abetter vs Complicity - What's the difference?

abetter | complicity |

As nouns the difference between abetter and complicity

is that abetter is while complicity is (senseid)the state of being complicit; involvement as a partner or accomplice, especially in a crime or other wrongdoing.

abetter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Usage notes

    * Abetter is rarely used in the legal sense.

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    complicity

    Noun

    (complicities)
  • (senseid)The state of being complicit; involvement as a partner or accomplice, especially in a crime or other wrongdoing.
  • * 1854 , , Hard Times , ch. 32:
  • He drew up a placard, offering Twenty Pounds reward for the apprehension of Stephen Blackpool, suspected of complicity in the robbery of Coketown Bank.
  • (archaic) Complexity.Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.
  • * 1861 , Dr. Marx, "Musical Education and Instruction," The Musical Times , vol. 10, no. 220, p. 53:
  • How easy is it, on the other hand, to an enlightened teacher, particularly in the beginning, to elucidate the various forms of rhythm by methodical arrangement in respect of simplicity and increasing complicity or mixture!

    Synonyms

    * collusion, complicitousness, connivance

    Derived terms

    * complicitous

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