The answer of the King to the respectful and loyal constitutional petition of Congress was to proclaim the petitioners "rebels," and all that supported them "abettors of treason.
It was not unlikely that the case of Roldan and his abettors was represented with equal confidence in other letters, for there were many hands among the passengers to which they could be confided.
Porras and his abettors did what they could to picture the cruelties of the Admiral, and even accused him of necromancy in summoning the ghost of a caravel by which to make his people believe that Escobar had really been there.
It has its abettors in the White House, the treasury, the interior.
Many persons were convicted and punished as aiders and abettors of the conspiracy.
This movement was styled a national movement; and its abettorsraised that cry of "Egypt for Egyptians," which has had its counterpart wherever selfish patriots seek to keep all the good things of the land to themselves.
The larger plans of the Rhodope insurgents and theirabettors at Constantinople are not fully known.
The consciences of the faithful were also troubled when the fiat of the Pope went forth excommunicating the robber-king and all his chief abettors in the work of sacrilege.
A Dominican of Cologne, Hochstraten, also entered the lists against Luther, but his intervention did more harm than good to the cause of the Church by alienating the Humanist party whom he assailed fiercely as allies andabettors of Luther.
For William and for many of his abettors religion was but a secondary issue, provided only that by means of a religious revolution the power of Spain could be overthrown.
This tribunal appears to have intimidated both the maid and her abettors into a confession of the imposture, and they were condemned to stand during the sermon on Sunday at St. Paul's Cross, and there acknowledge the fraud.
It was the one proximate and exposed quarter through which the Pope and his abettors on the Continent could perpetually assail him.
Felton was lodged in the Tower, and threatened with the rack to make him confess his accomplices, but he steadfastly replied that he had no accomplices or abettors but the remonstrance of the Commons.
To establish justice," was understood to be for their sole benefit as slaveholders, and the guilty abettorsof slavery.
We are certain that tyrants and theirabettors will be against us.
They are such as those abettors of this system who wish to sustain the great interests of morality and religion do not make, but strenuously contend against.
Do the abettors of this system admit that there is something opposed to necessity?
There are few perhaps of the theological abettors of Edwards's system, who would not also be startled by it.
Wild and extravagant as the scheme was, he entered seriously upon it, and easily found abettors among those who had escaped the angry vengeance of 1798.
In the meanwhile the evidence against Katharine and her abettors was being laboriously wrung out of all those who had come into contact with her.
The pope refused to hold communion with Theophilus or any of the abettors of the persecution of our saint.
Several succeeding bishops, who were intruded into that chair, were infamous abettors of that heresy.
Practically, they are the aiders and abettors of landlords.
He did so; the plate was obtained; all the information sought for was procured, and the counterfeiters and their abettors were captured.
This is a sort of logic which, when scanned down to its naked character, one would get as little credit in refuting, as its abettors are entitled to for its invention and use.
But I think it fares but very indifferently with those who make use of it; for they would get but little to be proved abettors of tyranny at the expense of putting me to an inconvenient acknowledgment.
But, say the abettors of our penal laws, this old possessed superstition is such in its principles, that society, on its general principles, cannot subsist along with it.
These points are, indeed, so evident, that I apprehend theabettors of the penal system will ground their defence on an admission, and not on a denial of them.
It passes decrees frequently for the punishment of the abettors of the September crime, but, on their menacing petition, the trials are indefinitely postponed.
The constitutional priests and the club of the canton of Montestruc suggested to the inhabitants that all the abettors of unsworn priests and of aristocrats should be put to ransom and laid under contribution.
The high-church party reproached the other as time-servers, and presbyterians in disguise; and were in their turn stigmatized as the friends and abettors of tyranny and persecution.
This incident furnished the malcontents with a colour to paint the ministry as the authors and abettors of a piratical expedition, which they wanted to screen from the cognizance of the public.
The prisoners were immediately acquitted, and the ministry incurred a heavy load of popular odium, as the authors or abettors of knavish contrivances to insnare the innocent.
But let the abettors of the Panther's crime Learn to make fairer wars another time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abettors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
