Eschew vs Espouse - What's the difference?
eschew | espouse |
To become/get married to.
To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause).
* 1998 , , Event Structure in Argument Linking , in: Miriam Butt and Wilhelm Geuder, eds., “The Projection of Arguments”, p. 37
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As verbs the difference between eschew and espouse
is that eschew is to avoid; to shun, to shy away from while espouse is to become/get married to.eschew
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Usage notes
* The verb is not normally applied to the avoidance or shunning of a person or physical object, but rather, only to the avoidance or shunning of an idea, concept, or other intangible.Quotations
{{timeline , 1500s=1599 , 1900s=1927 , 2010s=2014}} * *: What cannot be eschew’d must be embrac’d. * 1927 , *: He could afford no servants, and would admit but few visitors to his absolute solitude; eschewing close friendships and receiving his rare acquaintances in one of the three ground-floor rooms which he kept in order. * '>citationDerived terms
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espouse
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Verb
(espous)- 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