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Espouse vs Expound - What's the difference?

espouse | expound |

As verbs the difference between espouse and expound

is that espouse is to become/get married to while expound is to lay open; to expose to view; to examine or exposit.

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

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    * espousal * sponsor * spouse

    expound

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To lay open; to expose to view; to examine or exposit.
  • To lay open the meaning of; to explain or discuss at length; to clear of obscurity; to interpret.
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