espouse
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espouse
- /ɪˈspaʊz/ UK
- /ɪˈspaʊs/
Rhymes with -aʊz, -aʊs
Where it comes from
From Middle English espousen, borrowed from Old French espouser, from Latin spōnsāre (frequentative of spondeō), from Proto-Indo-European *spend-.
verb espouses · espousing · espoused
- To marry. For I am iealous ouer you with godly iealousie, for I haue espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
- To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause). 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.
