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Complicity vs Abetting - What's the difference?

complicity | abetting |

As nouns the difference between complicity and abetting

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

As a verb abetting is

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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

    References

    abetting

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who abets.
  • * Charles Dickens
  • aidings and abettings of every bad inclination in the popular mind