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# espouse

«espouse» in Mova's school dictionary: **To take up a cause and support it warmly, often as your own** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (espouses, espoused, espousing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To take up a cause and support it warmly, often as your own. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/espouse/#m1)

2) (old use) To marry someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/espouse/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, a hero espouses the cause of the poor or of a weaker people against a tyrant

### examples

- She warmly espoused the cause of the poor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/espouse/#x1)
- The knight espoused the cause of the village. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/espouse/#x2)
- In the old tale, the prince espoused the princess. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/espouse/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.588/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «espouse» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/espouse/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.