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Espouse
//ɪˈspaʊs// verb
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Verb
- 1 To marry. transitive
"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."
- 2 take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own wordnet
- 3 To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause). figuratively, transitive
"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."
- 4 choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans wordnet
- 5 take in marriage; married wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English espousen, borrowed from Old French espouser, from Latin spōnsāre (frequentative of spondeō), from Proto-Indo-European *spend-.
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