0 to become involved with or support an activity or opinion: --
Vegetarianism is one cause she does not espouse.
1 to support an activity or opinion: --
He espoused conservative political views.
There is often resistance to scholars espousing paradigms different from those traditionally applied to a given subject.
The group espouses exogamous marriage, but this is an ideal rule and can be followed or not.
Finally, the association is also accused of espousing illiberal views in the field of personal rights.
Further research is urgently needed, now, to assess the extent to which this espoused approach is successful.
On the face of it, these two theories seem quite incompatible, espousing rather contradictory views of how visual perception transpires.
Was the psychological theory they espoused consonant with our increasing knowledge of language and language interiorization processes?
By espousing the latter, one rejects modularity yet one does not reject cognitive neuropsychology.
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.