espoused
embraced or adopted, as an idea, principle, or cause:There was an immediate negative reaction to his clearly espoused beliefs on the subject.
Archaic. married:Once while I was in medical school, my recently espoused wife was persuaded to come and see me do a post-mortem.
Archaic. engaged or betrothed:Espoused couples desiring to be married by the Ministerial Staff are required to complete the six-week preparation course.
the simple past tense and past participle of espouse.
Origin of espoused
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How to use espoused in a sentence
For a lot of fringe figures like anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers, and QAnon conspiracy theorists, espousing an extreme belief is not necessarily about the truth.
It’s time to raise the cost of spreading conspiracy theories | Matthew Heimer | January 14, 2021 | FortuneWhile I favor many of the programs espoused by the progressive left they must recognize how the country votes and how the country views their proposals as currently presented.
We are a family … Trainers who espouse the pack metaphor extract the “hierarchy” component and ignore the social context from which it emerges.
Forget Everything You Know About Your Dog (Ep. 436) | Stephen J. Dubner | October 22, 2020 | FreakonomicsOther doctors and epidemiologists who have signed on to the declaration espouse views that are largely rejected by the scientific community, including the notion that herd immunity would only require 10% to 20% of the population to be infected.
Whether or not the answer that you gave me to espouse was correct is a different question.
It is the kind of compassion espoused by every world religion and every revered religious leader.
But such an approach works against the traditional pride in self-sufficiency espoused by many in the American middle class.
And the values of Chabad rest uneasily alongside the values publicly espoused in the Booker-Boteach-Hecht show.
This was the same all-too-easy-to-articulate ideological trinity regularly espoused by the military junta.
The Legacy of Argentina’s Dirty War Is a Problem for Lots of People | Mark Szuchman | March 17, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTPearce, Ready said, espoused “neo-Nazi philosophy completely.”
Jason Todd Ready, an Arizona White Supremacist, Kills Four, Then Himself | Terry Greene Sterling | May 3, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHe warmly espoused the interests of his country, and many important measures were effected by his eloquence.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellA pretty dispute followed, in which Edna warmly espoused her father's cause and the Doctor remained neutral.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinShe then espoused the second clerk, Berthier, in 1837, after having been on the point of accepting Lousteau.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z | Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois ChristopheThe influence of Constantine seems to have been fraught with more of evil than of good to the new religion that he espoused.
The Catacombs of Rome | William Henry WithrowHaving espoused the party of the Persians, Pixodarus sent for a satrap to share the kingdom with him.
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