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es·pouse (e spo̵uz, i-)

transitive verb -·poused, -·pous·ing

  1. to take as a spouse, esp. as a wife; marry
  2. to give in marriage
  3. to take up, support, or advocate (some cause, idea, etc.)

Etymology: ME espousen < OFr espouser < LL sponsare < L sponsus: see spouse

espouse Related Forms
es·pouser noun
espouse Synonyms

espouse

v.

  1. To support

    advocate, adopt, take up, uphold; see adopt 2, support 2.

  2. To take as a spouse

    marry, wed, betroth; see marry 1.

espouse Usage Examples

Object

  • ideology: For man to espouse a certain ideology according to his faith is a matter belonging to an elementary human right.
  • doctrine: He is the first Conservative leader to espouse a doctrine which the Church of England finds entirely repulsive.
  • virtue: It is one thing to say you are virtuous when you are not and quite another to espouse a virtue you fail to meet.
  • nationalism: The party has existed since 1925 and in its early period espoused a romantic bourgeois nationalism, looking back to a mythologised feudal past.
  • philosophy: Under German law, books espousing Nazi philosophy are banned from public display or sale.
  • notion: Yet not a single economist has espoused this notion of pluralistic price publicly.

Subject

  • story: It is espoused by long term success stories such as TNT, and more modern ones such as Metro and Innocent.
  • government: The option of exiting the world market that the dependency theorists advocated has almost never been espoused by governments.

Modifying Another Word

  • openly: In this form of criticism, a theological reading of the Bible is openly espoused.
  • warmly: Like his cousin, the Town Clerk, he warmly espoused the side of the Covenanters.
  • publicly: Thus her tacit view of accounting does not always coincide with the publicly espoused view of accounting promoted by course materials or by her.
  • often: Despite being a dyed-in-the-wool Mini adherent, Ian has never adopted the blinkered views so often espoused by dedicated car enthusiasts.
  • still: Both major parties have now abandoned these principles; only the BNP still espouses all of them.
  • now: This is the model now espoused more or less openly by the Tories.

Used with why or when

  • what: In your posts Godfrey you ' always ' espouse what others should and should not do, and what opinions they should hold.
  • when: Is it because they don't have an authentic experience of the truths that they espouse when they preach?

Preposition: in

  • book: Learn how Presidents Reagan, Johnson, Kennedy, and many others used the lessons espoused in this book to get to the top.

Preposition: by

  • story: It is espoused by long term success stories such as TNT, and more modern ones such as Metro and Innocent.
  • writer: This is the point of view tentatively espoused by the present writer, but admittedly without full understanding.
  • government: The option of exiting the world market that the dependency theorists advocated has almost never been espoused by governments.

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