NOUN
- archaic terms for a wedding or wedding feast
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the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception
its adoption by society
the proposal found wide acceptance - the act of becoming betrothed or engaged
How To Use espousal In A Sentence
- But a younger generation of Cuban-Americans is less fixated by Castro and his espousal of communism during the cold war. Barack Obama acts to ease US embargo on Cuba
- Gandhiji's espousal of khadi is legendary but few are aware that he himself learnt carding and spinning at Mani Bhawan in 1917.
- In fact, these laws were constructed primarily to prevent the espousal of anti-Jewish sentiments.
- The espousal of such a view by a leading English-as-a-second-language practitioner shows that the national English language policy has failed.
- Their paranoid espousal of various conspiracy theories, rabid support of Israel and religious Zionism, and fiery preaching about the "Islamic Threat" held for me a strange fascination.
- The day of our believing is the day of our espousals to the Lord Jesus. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
- The response I have received to my articles about them, and my espousal of these beliefs, has been, for the most part, pretty hostile, and sometimes downright nasty.
- Indeed traditionalist, Tridentine Roman Catholics deplore the theological modernism into which their church has sunk through the espousal of the theory of doctrinal development.
- Happiness my Heart could hope for on this Side Heaven, in the Espousals of my Son with the fair Daughter of my Friend: My next Care must be to find out my Daughter, which I left with a poor Woman of Cajeta, she being too tender for my rough Hands to deal withal; therefore I left her at that Town, in my Passage, as I went to imbark. Exilius
- For the present time is the time of espousal, but the time of the nuptials is another; when they sing, ` the Bridegroom hath risen up. ' NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians