Spoused vs Espoused - What's the difference?
spoused | espoused |
(spouse)
A person's husband or wife.
* Spenser
(dated) To wed; to espouse.
* 1819 , , Otho the Great , Act III, Scene II, verses 212-214
(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 spoused and espoused
is that spoused is (spouse) while espoused is (espouse).spoused
English
Verb
(head)spouse
English
Noun
(en noun)- People should treat their spouses with respect.
- At last such grace I found, and means I wrought, / That I that lady to my spouse had won.
Derived terms
* spousal (pos a)Verb
- Do you stand possess’d
- Of any proof against the honourableness
- Of Lady Auranthe, our new-spoused daughter?
Anagrams
*espoused
English
Verb
(head)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