Word Meanings - ESPOUSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

espouse, fr. sponsus betrothed, p. p. of spondere to promise solemnly 1. To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse. A virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph. Luke i. 27. 2. To take as spouse; to take to wife; to marry. Lavinia

Additional info about word: ESPOUSE

espouse, fr. sponsus betrothed, p. p. of spondere to promise solemnly 1. To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse. A virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph. Luke i. 27. 2. To take as spouse; to take to wife; to marry. Lavinia will I make my empress, . . . And in the sacred Pantheon her espouse. Shak. 3. To take to one's self with a view to maintain; to make one's own; to take up the cause of; to adopt; to embrace. "He espoused that quarrel." Bacon. Promised faithfully to espouse his cause as soon as he got out of the war. Bp. Burnet.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ESPOUSE)

• Wed
• Link
• marry
• espouse

Related words: (words related to ESPOUSE)

• MARRY
  1. To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws or customs of the place. Tell him that he shall marry the
• ESPOUSER
  One who espouses; one who embraces the cause of another or makes it his own.
• ESPOUSE
  espouse, fr. sponsus betrothed, p. p. of spondere to promise solemnly 1. To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse. A virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph. Luke i. 27. 2. To take as spouse; to take to wife; to marry. Lavinia
• ESPOUSEMENT
  The act of espousing, or the state of being espoused.
• UNMARRY
  To annul the marriage of; to divorce. Milton.
• DISESPOUSE
  To release from espousal or plighted faith. Milton.
• INTERMARRY
  To become connected by marriage between their members; to give and take mutually in marriage; -- said of families, ranks, castes, etc. About the middle of the fourth century from the building of Rome, it was declared lawful for nobles and plebeians
• REMARRY
  To marry again.
• DISMARRY
  To free from the bonds of marriage; to divorce. Ld. Berners.