Espouse vs Marshal - What's the difference?
espouse | marshal |
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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for someone who was in charge of the horses of a royal household, or an occupational surname for someone who looked after horses, or was responsible for the custody of prisoners.
, transferred use of the surname since nineteenth century.
English surnames from occupations
As verbs the difference between espouse and marshal
is that espouse is to become/get married to while marshal is to arrange troops etc in line for inspection or a parade.As a noun marshal is
a high-ranking officer in the household of a medieval prince or lord, who was originally in charge of the cavalry and later the military forces in general.espouse
English
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