Espouser vs Espouses - What's the difference?
espouser | espouses |
One who espouses; one who embraces or adopts the cause of another.
(Webster 1913)
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(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 a noun espouser
is one who espouses; one who embraces or adopts the cause of another.As a verb espouses is
third-person singular of espouse.espouser
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(en noun)espouses
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(head)espouse
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(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