different between espouse vs upbraid

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 upbreiden, from Old English ?pbre?dan, equivalent to up- +? braid. Compare English umbraid (“to upbraid”), Icelandic bregða (“to draw, brandish, braid, deviate from, change, break off, upbraid”). See up, and braid (transitive).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??p?b?e?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Verb

upbraid (third-person singular simple present upbraids, present participle upbraiding, simple past and past participle upbraided)

1. (transitive) To criticize severely.
   • How much doth thy kindness upbraid my wickedness!

2. (transitive, archaic, followed by with or for, and formerly of before the object) To charge with something wrong or disgraceful; to reproach
3. (obsolete) To treat with contempt.

   • There also was that mighty monarch laid, Low under all, yet above all in pride; That name of native fire did foul upbraid, And would, as Ammon's son, be magnify'd.

4. (obsolete, followed by "to" before the object) To object or urge as a matter of reproach

   Synonym: cast up

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Envy

     Those that have been bred together, are more apt to envy their equals when raised: for it doth upbraid unto them their own fortunes, and pointeth at them.

5. (archaic, intransitive) To utter upbraidings.
6. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, archaic) To vomit; retch.

Synonyms

(criticise): : exprobrate, blame, censure, condemn, reproach

Translations

Noun

upbraid (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The act of reproaching; scorn; disdain.

   • He was ymet; who with uncomely Shame
     Gan him salute, and foul upbraid with faulty Blame.

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