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Meanings of espouse in English

Portuguese
casar-se
Catalan
casar-se
Spanish
enlazarse

Take in marriage.

casar-se
Portuguese
adoptar
Catalan
adoptar
Spanish
adoptar

Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own.

adoptar
Usage of espouse in English
1
Corporate social responsibility has become something that companies espouse, at least publicly.
The Guardian
2
And music, theatre and film will be used to espouse environmental causes.
The Irish Times
3
The difference is that they espouse armed force to achieve their objectives.
The Guardian
4
It can help you to live up to the values you espouse.
Radio NZ
5
So shall ever perish those who espouse the cause of the poor.
The Coming of the King
6
You cannot demonise one race and espouse equality at the same time.
The Irish Times
7
Only she would never have stipulated for an average to espouse Diana.
Diana of the Crossways — Volume 1
8
Which is very ironic, because I always espouse the virtues of marijuana.
Love All The People
9
Nothing, however, but political considerations could have driven them to espouse it.
The History of the Thirty Years' War
10
Again will I espouse thee-inlife as in death, am I thine!
The Daughter of an Empress
11
The NSW Liberals espouse lower taxes, greater freedom and smaller government.
The Guardian
12
You let men espouse dangerous novelties and encourage them in disputation.
The Secret Eleanor
13
These are the values I espouse, whether or not you agree with them.
The Guardian
14
The Association has too much shrewdness to espouse the quarrel of an individual.
The Stillwater Tragedy
15
They were therefore led to espouse the cause of the governor.
Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam
16
Among the first to espouse the abolition doctrines was Judge Tilden.
Cleveland Past and Present: Its Representative Men / Comprising ...
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