espouse

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil 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.”

2. fiil 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.”