espouse
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From Middle English espousen < Old French espouser < Latin spōnsāre (frequentative of spondēre) < Proto-Indo-European *spend-
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to espouse (third-person singular simple present espouses, present participle espousing, simple past and past participle espoused)
- (transitive) To become/get married to.
- (transitive) To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause).
- 1998, William Croft, Event Structure in Argument Linking, in: Miriam Butt and Wilhelm Geuder, eds., “The Projection of Arguments”, p. 37
- Although Dowty’s proposal is attractive from the point of view of the alternative argument linking theory that I am espousing, since it eschews the use of thematic roles and thematic role hierarchies, […], but it still has some drawbacks.
- 1998, William Croft, Event Structure in Argument Linking, in: Miriam Butt and Wilhelm Geuder, eds., “The Projection of Arguments”, p. 37
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become married to
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accept, support, take as one’s own
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