espouse
verb/ɪˈspaʊz/UK/ɪˈspaʊs/
Etymology
Definitions
To marry.
- For I am iealous ouer you with godly iealousie, for I haue espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
- Now the birth of Iesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Ioseph (before they came together) shee was found with childe of the holy Ghost.
- Philip and Henry terminated hostilities by a mutual restitution of all places taken during the course of the war; and Philip espoused the princess Elizabeth, eldest daughter of France, formerly betrothed to his son Don Carlos.
To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause).
- 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.
- Those that espoused this ideology […]
- Among those leavers who believe Brexit has not gone well, many blame politicians for handling it badly – a narrative espoused by the former Ukip leader Nigel Farage, who recently claimed that “Brexit has failed”.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at espouse. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at espouse. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at espouse
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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