espouse
English
Etymology
From Middle English espousen, borrowed from Old French espouser, from Latin spōnsāre, present active infinitive of spōnsō (frequentative of spondeō), from Proto-Indo-European *spend-.
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -aʊz, -aʊs
Verb
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- (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.
- 2011, Donald J. van Vliet, “Letter: Republicans espouse ideology over national welfare”, in The Eagle-Tribune[1], retrieved 2013-12-18:
- Those that espoused this ideology […]
- 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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Translations
become married to
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accept, support, take as one’s own
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