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1. Choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
   "The candidate espouses Republican ideals";
   - adopt, follow
    
2. Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
   "She espoused Catholicism";
   - embrace, adopt, sweep up
    
3. [archaic] Take in marriage; married
   - marry, get married, wed, conjoin [formal], hook up with [informal], get hitched with [informal], tie the knot [informal], get hitched [informal], hitch up [informal]

Derived forms: espousing, espouses, espoused

Type of: accept, choose, pick out, select, take, unify, unite

Encyclopedia: Espouse