Espoused

Word ESPOUSED
Character 8
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Definitions and meanings of "Espoused"

What do we mean by espoused?

To become/get married to.

To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause).

An ironic statement that means avoid ambiguity and adopt clarity. It's ironic because it is hypocritical. Urban Dictionary

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The word "espoused" in example sentences

He still lied, what he espoused is not what is in the current health bill in the house. ❋ Unknown (2009)

To attempt to ascribe any deeper meaning than that to anything she espoused is silliness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The utopian socialism that Orwell espoused is long gone, ultimately just another aspect of the reactionary attitudes that Orwell embodied. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I think the 'pod' theory espoused is correct: the first 9 episodes were ok, Niki and Paolo were annoying, but the last few episodes rocked like few have rocked before. ❋ Unknown (2007)

"Orthodoxy" a word espoused as fact in early Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism became a taboo word. ❋ James F. McGrath (2009)

She called his espoused dedication to religion false and said he plied her with alcohol and drugs to lower her resistance to his sexual advances. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Christ's mother was a virgin, because he was not to be born by ordinary generation, but miraculously; it was necessary that he should be so, that, though he must partake of the nature of man, yet not of the corruption of that nature: but he was born of a virgin espoused, made up to be married, and contracted, to put honour upon the married state, that that might not be brought into contempt (which was an ordinance in innocency) by the Redeemer's being born of a virgin. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The commonly recognized core belief of Fundamentalism, which my Conservative Baptist church espoused, is that the Bible should be read literally, or at least that’s how they usually put it. ❋ Unknown (2007)

That’s why I feel that the absolute definition of unique usually espoused is a flawed instrument. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The language of individuality and expression espoused by Facebook or Twitter is universal and increasingly becoming more integral to self-identity for Millennials than the language of their homeland. ❋ Natalia Brzezinski (2010)

"If that produces a pro-London focus, then that is a consequence of a policy that the government has espoused, which is to say that the focus [on deciding where to cut] should be on economic growth." ❋ Unknown (2010)

While Darwin could only wonder at the technical jargon espoused on the witness stand, he would find the metaphysical questions at the heart of the intelligent design controversy to be familiar territory. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is the notion espoused whenever we tell the Lebanese, the Iraqis, the Palestinians and various other Arab nations that the legitimacy of a new government flows from its being democratically approved. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Upon graduating from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 2004, he bristled at the notion espoused by some senior physicians that a doctor should put medicine above all else. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Instead of saying [eschew obfuscation, espouse elucidation], Mary just told us to avoid [confusion] and [be clear]. ❋ Alicat III (2009)

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