What is the difference between connive and abet?
connive | abet | Synonyms |
to cooperate with others secretly in order to commit a crime; to collude
to plot or scheme
to pretend to be ignorant of something in order to escape blame; to ignore a fault deliberately
* Jeremy Taylor
* Burke
* Macaulay
(archaic) To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.
* Spectator
to be a wench
English control verbs
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(obsolete) To urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.
To incite; to assist or encourage by aid or countenance in crime.
* 1823 , Ringan Gilhaize, The covenanters, by the author of Annals of the parish :
(archaic) To support, countenance, maintain, uphold, or aid any good cause, opinion, or action; to maintain.
* 1835 , Jeremy Taylor, George Rust, The whole works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor :
(obsolete) To back up one's forecast of a doubtful issue, by staking money, etc., to bet.
(obsolete) Fraud or cunning.
(obsolete) An act of abetting; of helping; of giving aid.
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Abet is a synonym of connive.
As verbs the difference between connive and abet
is that connive is to cooperate with others secretly in order to commit a crime; to collude while abet is to urge on, stimulate (a person to do) something desirable.As a noun abet is
fraud or cunning.connive
English
Verb
(conniv)- to connive at what it does not approve
- In many of these, the directors were heartily concurring; in most of them, they were encouraging, and sometimes commanding; in all they were conniving .
- The government thought it expedient, occasionally, to connive at the violation of this rule.
- The artist is to teach them how to nod judiciously, and to connive with either eye.
References
abet
English
Verb
(abett)- Those who would exalt themselves by abetting the strength of the Godless, and the wrength of the oppressors.
- Our duty is urged, and our confidence abetted .
