espoused

Meaning

of Espouse

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

elected supported married backed marital professed betrothed wedded matrimonial affianced sweep up adopted picked remarried trothplight
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Antonyms

married attached deserted marital wed misplaced
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Phrases with the word

become espoused

Examples

Although some EPLF cadres at one time espoused a Marxist ideology, Soviet support for Mengistu had cooled their ardor. Source: Internet

At the same time the well-established poet, Rolf Jacobsen, espoused a more critical attitude to the consumer mentality and environmental destruction. Source: Internet

Ankarsjö, p. 64 Ankarsjö records Blake as having supported a commune with some sharing of partners, though David Worrall read The Book of Thel as a rejection of the proposal to take concubines espoused by some members of the Swedenborgian church. Source: Internet

As first espoused by Chris Farley’s immortal SNL character Matt Foley, living in a van down by the river—bucolic-sounding as that might be—is really an acquired aesthetic. Source: Internet

An Eastern Galician dynasty drawing both from the Seer of Lublin 's charismatic-populist style and "rabbinic" Hasidism, it espoused hard-line positions but broke off from the Orthodox Council of Jerusalem and joined Agudas in 1979. Source: Internet

Donald (1996), p. 222. The party, including Lincoln, favored economic modernization in banking, protective tariffs to fund internal improvements including railroads, and espoused urbanization as well. Source: Internet