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Definition of Espousing
1. espouse [v] - See also: espouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Espousing
Literary usage of Espousing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bishop Burnet's History of His Own Time: From the Restoration of King by Gilbert Burnet (1850)
"... nothing would more contribute to raise the other than the espousing that side,
which would naturally come under his protection : but he added, ..."
2. History of the Romans Under the Empire by Charles Merivale (1865)
"Pompeius, as sole consul, undertakes the reform of abuses: his ill success : he
connects himself again with the oligarchy by espousing the daughter of ..."
3. The Grecian History: From the Earliest State to the Death of Alexander the Great by Oliver Goldsmith (1828)
"... and on the other hand, in espousing the interest of the people, whenever the
kings attempted to cariy their authority too far. 15. ..."
4. Memoirs of the Pretenders and Their Adherents by John Heneage Jesse (1901)
"... Disinterested Conduct in espousing the Cause of the Stuarts — Taken Prisoner
at Preston — His Trial and Execution. WILLIAM GORDON, Viscount Kenmure, ..."
5. Historical Memoirs of My Own Time by Nathaniel William Wraxall (1815)
"reserved for the family of Braganza to exhibit to mankind, in the eighteenth
century, .the extraordinary spectacle of a youth of fifteen, espousing his own ..."
6. History of Mecklenburg County and the City of Charlotte from 1740 to 1903 by Daniel Augustus Tompkins (1903)
"Mecklenburg Escaped the Worst Evils of Those Days—Federal Officers and Troops in
Charlotte—Editor Waring Indicted for espousing the Southern Cause—Conduct ..."
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