Word Frequency
Translations for 'espouse'
- British English: espouse If you espouse a particular policy, cause, or belief, you become very interested in it and give your support to it. VERBShe espoused the revolutionary cause.
- Brazilian Portuguese: adotar
- Chinese: 拥护拥擁护護
- European Spanish: apoyar
- French: embrasser
- German: eintreten für
- Italian: abbracciare
- Japanese: 信奉する
- Korean: 신봉하다
- Portuguese: adotar
- Spanish: apoyar
Example Sentences Including 'espouse'
Although sometimes accused of playing to the gallery, he is also prepared to espouse causes unpopular with right and left.Belfast Telegraph (2004)
And unlike other ngos, they are not keen on celebrities to espouse or drum up support for their cause.India Today
Both Mark MacGregor and John Bercow (who were chairmen of FCS) espouse policies with some of which I profoundly disagree.Times, Sunday Times (2002)
If you espouse an unpopular cause, you can't expect to be popular.ELSPETH HUXLEY: A BIOGRAPHY (2002)
In fact, I don't think I ever heard him espouse any particular theory.THE DEVIL'S OWN WORK (2002)
It's about values editorial integrity in particular, a value that quality publications espouse.Globe and Mail (2004)
They aren't as dedicated to the freedoms that the English-speaking countries espouse.Ottawa Sun (2003)
Unlike others in the city or on the council, we did not espouse the Lancastrian cause in the recent war, so why are we here?A Shrine of Murders
`True, but the generation that still appreciated the old-fashioned values even if it didn't espouse them personally is gone.Miss Melville Regrets
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