espouse
verb (used with object), es·poused, es·pous·ing.
Origin of espouse
Synonyms for espouse
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adopt, uphold, defend, advocate, maintain, embrace, approve, back, accept, champion, catch, betroth, unite, wedExamples from the Web for espoused
Contemporary Examples of espoused
Pearce, Ready said, espoused “neo-Nazi philosophy completely.”
Jason Todd Ready, an Arizona White Supremacist, Kills Four, Then HimselfTerry Greene Sterling
May 3, 2012
Santorum espoused this worldview back in 2008, in a speech to Ave Maria University.
Certainly, Paine espoused suspicion of too-powerful states, which makes him eminently quotable by Tea Partiers now.
At that point I legitimately believed everything I espoused.
The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them.
Historical Examples of espoused
I do not ask your name, nor do I wish to know which cause you have espoused.
John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told ThereinFrank R. Stockton
And especially, how would she be regarded by her espoused husband?
Jesus the ChristJames Edward Talmage
Eventually he returned to the party which he had espoused, and escaped to France.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745.Mrs. Thomson
Lately the Democrats have espoused "free silver," and the Republicans have "buried" them.
As A Chinaman Saw UsAnonymous
He had been living all these years for himself, was it not time that he espoused some other motive?
A Little Girl in Old SalemAmanda Minnie Douglas