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Espouse vs Espoused - What's the difference?

espouse | espoused |

As verbs the difference between espouse and espoused

is that espouse is to become/get married to while espoused is (espouse).

espouse

English

Verb

(espous)
  • 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
  • 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.
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  • Those that espoused this ideology

    espoused

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (espouse)

  • espouse

    English

    Verb

    (espous)
  • 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
  • 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