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In some senses, espouse is marked as figuratively. Watch for register when choosing this word.
espouse
/ɪˈspaʊz/
verb 2
Collocations
3ADJ.
free, right-wing
VERB + ESPOUSE
eschew
ESPOUSE + NOUN
elucidation
Definitions
verb
1
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.
Now the birth of Iesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Ioseph (before they came together) shee was found with childe of the holy Ghost.
2
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.
Those that espoused this ideology […]
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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.
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Now the birth of Iesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Ioseph (before they came together) shee was found with childe of the holy Ghost.
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Philip and Henry terminated hostilities by a mutual restitution of all places taken during the course of the war; and Philip espoused the princess Elizabeth, eldest daughter of France, formerly betrot
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Libertarians espouse free markets and limited government.
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Eschew obfuscation, espouse elucidation.
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Right-wing libertarians espouse free markets and limited government.
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