To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause).
Origin
From Middle English espousen, borrowed from Old French espouser, from Latin spōnsāre, present active infinitive of spōnsō (frequentative of spondeō), from Proto-Indo-European *spend-.
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