different between espouse vs spouse

English

Etymology

From Middle English espousen, borrowed from Old French espouser, from Latin sp?ns?re, present active infinitive of sp?ns? (frequentative of sponde?), from Proto-Indo-European *spend-.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??spa?z/
• Rhymes: -a?z, -a?s

Verb

espouse (third-person singular simple present espouses, present participle espousing, simple past and past participle espoused)

1. (transitive) To become/get married to.
2. (transitive) To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause).
   • 1998, William Croft, 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.

Related terms

• espousal
• sponsor
• spouse

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Anagrams

• poseuse

English

Etymology

From Middle English spous, spouse, from Anglo-Norman espus m, espuse f and Old French espos m, espose f and by aphesis from Latin sp?nsus m (“bridegroom”), sp?nsa f (“bride”), from sponde? (“I vow, pledge”), from Proto-Indo-European *spend-.

Cognate to espouse, sponsor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /spa?s/
• Rhymes: -a?s

Noun

spouse (plural spouses)

1. A person in a marriage or marital relationship.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:spouse

   Hyponyms: husband, wife

Derived terms

• spousal (adjective)

Translations

Verb

spouse (third-person singular simple present spouses, present participle spousing, simple past and past participle spoused)

1. (dated) To wed; to espouse.
   • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act III, Scene II, verses 212-214

     Do you stand possess’d

     Of any proof against the honourableness

     Of Lady Auranthe, our new-spoused daughter?

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• opuses