Espouse is valid Scrabble Word

Is espouse a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is espouse valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

7 letters word
9 points in Scrabble
11 points in WWF

Definitions for ESPOUSE in dictionary:

VERB:

to make a mutual promise of marriage
adopt or support (a cause, belief, or way of life)
marry
(of a woman) be engaged to (a particular man)
adopt or give support to (a cause etc)
To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse.
To take as spouse; to take to wife; to marry.
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.
choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans
take in marriage

take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one\'s own

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to marry

Words related to ESPOUSE

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Words that contain ESPOUSE

bespouse12 espoused11 espouser10 espouses10 bespoused14 bespouses13 espousers11 disespouse13 disespoused15 disespouses14

How to use ESPOUSE in a sentence

Whence it proceeded, sir, that those who now so zealously espouse the Austrian interest, have been so plainly forgetful of it on other occasions, I cannot determine.
He prevailed on the Duke of Lorraine, a second time, to espouse the cause of the Emperor.
Now it is not meet that a princess espouse a sea-cuny, or even a claimant of the ancient blood of Koryu, who is without power, or place, or visible symbols of rank.
The Socialist papers espouse the cause of labor, and the unions have opened their ears once more to the wiles of the Socialists.
Except upon the extreme alternative of disunion, the people of the border States were eager to espouse their quarrel, and join them in a contest for alleged political rights.
I come to you as a friend, to ask which side you espouse.
I do not espouse Free Trade because it is British, as some suppose it to be.
This was a remarkable instance of a stepfather and son being by custom compelled to espouse opposite sides of a quarrel because they bore different family names.
Elizabeth Timothee, for example, founded in Charleston, in 1773, a newspaper to espouse the cause of the province.
Some persons may think that he has carried his liberality too far, and injured the cause he professed to espouse by making him the chief person in his poem.

Her reluctance to espouse the man she was plighted to would cease to be uttered, cease to be felt.
In this quarter, all espouse your propositions with ardor, and without a dissenting voice.
But he observed those, four men, from that moment, to espouse the interests of England in every point and on every occasion.
She then formed a friendship with the sister of Charles, and induced her secretly to espouse Francis, thus securing his deliverance by his imperial brother-in-law.
By this marriage Henry confirmed what had formerly been foretold in jest, that he would be obliged to espouse a widow.
By virtue of it I should be obliged to espouse the cause of France against her enemies, and to wage war against Russia, my ally.
He was many times called upon to espouse unpopular causes and unpopular doctrines.
At that time, it required much more decision, perseverance, and moral principle, to espouse the temperance cause than it does to-day.
One day he saw a young girl, so beautiful that, being always accustomed to have his own way, he immediately determined to espouse her.
On crossing the frontiers she was met by all her household except the princess, who was with the king, then on his way to meet and espouse his bride.
They determined the side of the question each was to espouse, by tossing up a half-penny, and it fell to the share of Mr.
There are among these very people, these very gentlemen, persons who espouse, with great zeal, the interests of the Free Soil party.
Destined, as you doubtless are, to espouse Melodious Vision, the Forces connected with marriage and its Rites will certainly endeavour to inspire you.
When I left college, I was sent out to Jamaica, to espouse a bride already courted for me.
Although suitors of noble birth were ready to espouse these ladies, they were married against their will to two men, poor and outcast, and far below them in rank.
A citizen has been found willing, under his own name, to espouse the argument of the French writers.
The women of the leisure classes, almost as fast as their eyes are opened to the situation, espouse the cause of their working sisters.
She is ably supported in her resistance by her pretty maid, Zerbine, who is well paid by Leander, the favoured lover, to espouse his cause.
The young, who were making them, could not be supposed to espouse my cause, to the detriment of their own interest.
Hang Wilford! Hang the whole of them! I am not sure but I shall espouse her cause myself, or else tell father, who will do it so much better.
Hence, just now, while that party is trembling lest it should fall into the minority, and thus give place to the Democracy in 1872, it dares not espouse woman suffrage.
I conceive that the public have a right to know something beyond the mere name of the prince whom her majesty is about to espouse.
There are some men who neither speak nor write, but whose lives place them in the foremost ranks in the cause which they espouse.
Maude would espouse his cause, he was sure, for she liked him and worshipped Jerrie.

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