0 past simple and past participle of espouse
1 to become involved with or support an activity or opinion:
Vegetarianism is one cause she does not espouse.
It is, however, in the discourse and practices of sanitary reconstruction espoused by urban authorities that the most significant continuities can be discerned.
In one extract he had shown his contempt for the political pragmatism espoused by the home rule party.
This absence of a conceptual linkage between the rural and the urban labour markets compromises the model of integrated development espoused by the report.
The likelihood-based approach to business-cycle filtering espoused here could be used to meld estimated macroeconomic models and business-cycle filtering.
The tension in each case was often between texts that espoused one emphasis and practices that reflected another among those who read and wrote them.
Was the psychological theory they espoused consonant with our increasing knowledge of language and language interiorization processes?
Further research is urgently needed, now, to assess the extent to which this espoused approach is successful.
Espoused theories are more open to critical appraisal.
