From <span class="searchmatch">espouse</span> + -er. <span class="searchmatch">espouser</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">espousers</span>) One who <span class="searchmatch">espouses</span>; one who embraces or adopts a cause. “<span class="searchmatch">espouser</span>”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary...
<span class="searchmatch">espousers</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">espouser</span>...
From Middle English espousen, borrowed from Old French <span class="searchmatch">espouser</span>, from Latin spōnsāre (frequentative of spondeō), from Proto-Indo-European *spend-. IPA(key):...
Compare Old French <span class="searchmatch">espousement</span>. <span class="searchmatch">espousement</span> (countable and uncountable, plural <span class="searchmatch">espousements</span>) (archaic) betrothal; espousal. “<span class="searchmatch">espousement</span>”, in Webster’s Revised...
<span class="searchmatch">espousing</span> present participle and gerund of <span class="searchmatch">espouse</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">espousements</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">espousement</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">espouses</span> third-person singular simple present indicative of <span class="searchmatch">espouse</span> poseuses...
From <span class="searchmatch">espouse</span> + -able. <span class="searchmatch">espousable</span> (not comparable) Capable of being <span class="searchmatch">espoused</span>....
<span class="searchmatch">espoused</span> (comparative more <span class="searchmatch">espoused</span>, superlative most <span class="searchmatch">espoused</span>) Having been <span class="searchmatch">espoused</span> or claimed; held (as a belief or position). 2009, Don Defreeze, Please...
Inherited from Middle French <span class="searchmatch">espouser</span>, from Old French <span class="searchmatch">espouser</span>, from Latin spōnsāre. IPA(key): /e.pu.ze/ épouser (transitive) to marry, to wed (reflexive...