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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
espouse /ɪˈspaʊz, ɛ-/

▶verb

1 adopt or support (a cause, belief, or way of life).

2 archaic marry.
■ (be espoused to) be engaged to.

– derivatives
espouser noun.

– origin ME: from OFr. espouser, from L. sponsare, from sponsus ‘betrothed’, past part. of spondere.

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