noun
definition
A betrothal.
definition
A wedding ceremony.
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Adoption of a plan, cause, or idea.
Examples of espousal in a Sentence
He compelled attention by his strenuous activity, his passionate espousal of causes, and his enthusiasm for a constructive measure.
Perhaps his impressions were too gloomy; his whole enthusiasm had been for the Corsicans, who still maintained an unequal struggle against the French; he deeply resented his father's espousal of the French cause; and dislike of the conquerors of his native island made him morose and solitary.
He served as an engineer successively in the departments of Vendee, Drome and Ille-et-Villaine; but his espousal of the cause of the Bourbons in 1814 occasioned, on Napoleon's reaccession to power, the loss of his appointment.