Espouse

Verb

 * 1)  To become/get married to.
 * 2)  To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause).
 * 3) * 1998, William Croft, Event Structure in Argument Linking, in: Miriam Butt and Wilhelm Geuder, eds., “The Projection of Arguments”, p. 37
 * 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.

Synonyms for Espouse
embrace, assume, defend, adopt, betroth, marry.

Antonyms for Espouse
abandon, reject, abjure, forsake, divorce.

Related terms

 * espousal
 * sponsor
 * spouse

Thesaurus
accept, adopt, advocate, affiliate, allege in support, answer, approve, argue for, assert, back, be made one, be spliced, become one, campaign for, carry, catch, champion, contend for, contract matrimony, counter, couple, crusade for, defend, embrace, get hitched, go in for, intermarry, interwed, maintain, make a plea, marry, mate, miscegenate, pair off, pass, plead for, ratify, rebut, refute, remarry, reply, respond, rewed, riposte, say in defense, speak for, speak up for, stand up for, stick up for, support, sustain, take on, take to wife, take up, uphold, urge reasons for, wed, wive

Etymology
From espousen: <  espouser: <    sponsare: (frequentative of spondere:) <

Translations

 * Dutch:, in het huwelijk treden , tot man nemen, tot vrouw nemen


 * German: heiraten, ehelichen, sich vermählen mit, zur Frau nehmen, zum Mann nehmen
 * Polish: poślubić, ożenić się, wyjść za mąż


 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish: ,


 * German: eintreten für, Partei ergreifen für