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espoused

[ ih-spouzd, -spousd ]

adjective

  1. embraced or adopted, as an idea, principle, or cause:

    There was an immediate negative reaction to his clearly espoused beliefs on the subject.

  2. Archaic. married:

    Once while I was in medical school, my recently espoused wife was persuaded to come and see me do a post-mortem.

  3. Archaic. engaged or betrothed:

    Espoused couples desiring to be married by the Ministerial Staff are required to complete the six-week preparation course.



verb

  1. the simple past tense and past participle of espouse ( def ).

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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.

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While 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.

Other 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.

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Whether or not the answer that you gave me to espouse was correct is a different question.

From Ozy

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.

Pearce, Ready said, espoused “neo-Nazi philosophy completely.”

He warmly espoused the interests of his country, and many important measures were effected by his eloquence.

A pretty dispute followed, in which Edna warmly espoused her father's cause and the Doctor remained neutral.

She then espoused the second clerk, Berthier, in 1837, after having been on the point of accepting Lousteau.

The influence of Constantine seems to have been fraught with more of evil than of good to the new religion that he espoused.

Having espoused the party of the Persians, Pixodarus sent for a satrap to share the kingdom with him.

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