Espouse vs Promote - What's the difference?
espouse | promote |
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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To raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.
To advocate or urge on behalf of (something or someone); to attempt to popularize or sell by means of advertising or publicity.
To encourage, urge or incite
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, so that finding myself on the point of going, and loath to leave the tender partner of my joys behind me, I employed all the forwarding motions and arts my experience suggested to me, to promote his keeping me company to our journey's end}}
To elevate to the above league.
(label) To increase the activity of a catalyst by changing its surface structure
(label) To exchange a pawn for a queen or other piece when it reaches the 8th rank
As verbs the difference between espouse and promote
is that espouse is to become/get married to while promote is to raise (someone) to a more important, responsible, or remunerative job or rank.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
promote
English
Verb
(promot)- He promoted his clerk to office manager.
- Having crossed the chessboard, his pawn was promoted to a queen.
- They promoted the abolition of daylight saving time.
- They promoted the new film with giant billboards.
- At the end of the season, three teams are promoted to the Premier League.