espouse
verb (used with object)
to make one's own; adopt or embrace, as a cause.
espouser
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a word derived from
espouse.
Example Sentences
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For now though, it’s worth highlighting that the multimillionaire financier, Redmond’s Brian Heywood, was portrayed in a Seattle Times story to be an admirer of Ayn Rand, espouser of self-interested individualism.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2024
He was referring not to our conversations, which had been going on for several days, but to his career as a columnist, a public intellectual, a professional holder and espouser of opinions.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2019
Guevara’s reputation rests on his status as an iconic Cold War combatant and quixotic espouser of revolutionary ideals.
From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2017
The unfortunate espouser of the cause of the fair having thus been derided out of court, I took up the next question.
From The Right Stuff Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton by Ian Hay
She had seen in him the born espouser of lost causes.
From Bella Donna A Novel by Robert Smythe Hichens
