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 →

2) (old use) To marry someone. tree →

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 →
• The knight espoused the cause of the village. tree →
• In the old tale, the prince espoused the princess. tree →

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.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «espouse» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.