1. adopt or support (a cause, belief, or way of life): "he turned his back on the modernism he had espoused in his youth"
2. marry: archaic"Edward had espoused the lady Grey"
▪ (of a woman) be engaged to (a particular man):"she was secretly espoused to his son, Peter"
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘take as a spouse’): from Old French espouser, from Latin sponsare, from sponsus ‘betrothed’, past participle of spondere.
