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Espouses vs Spouses - What's the difference?

espouses | spouses |

As verbs the difference between espouses and spouses

is that espouses is (espouse) while spouses is (spouse).

As a noun spouses is

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espouses

English

Verb

(head)
  • (espouse)

    • 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.
  • *
    • Those that espoused this ideology

    Related terms

    * espousal * sponsor * spouse

    spouses

    English

    Noun

    (head)

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (spouse)