Espousal

Definition: Espousal

Espousal

Noun

1. The act of becoming betrothed or engaged.

2. Archaic terms for a wedding or wedding feast.

3. The act of accepting with approval; favorable reception; "its adoption by society"; "the proposal found wide acceptance".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "espousal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Espousal

Crosswords: Espousal

Economic History

Pakistan

In April 1993, President Khan, citing "maladministration, corruption, and nepotism" and espousal of political violence, dismissed the Sharif government, but the following month the Pakistan Supreme Court reinstated the National Assembly and the Nawaz Sharif government. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Albanian

përkrahje (abetment, advocacy, aliment, backing, backup, boost, buttress, championship, Favor, favour, furtherance, intercession, paternalism, patronage, promotion, prop, protection, push, support), martesë (cross, marriage, match, matrimony, noose, nuptial, splice, union, wedding, wedlock), fejesë (affiance, betrothal, contract, engagement). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مناصرة قضية, ‏تبنى (adopt, embrace, espouse, foster, take on, take over), ‏زفاف (bridal, hymen, marriage, nuptial, nuptials, wedding), ‏زواج (getting married, marriage, match, matrimony, splice, union, wedding, wedlock), ‏خطبة خطوبة (engagement), ‏إعتناق معتقد. (various references)

Bulgarian 

женитба (contract, hymen, marriage, match, union), бракосъчетание (marriage), приемане (acceptance, admission, adoption, assumption, enrollment, entertainment, inspection, passage, passing, receipt, reception, recognition). (various references)

Czech

manželský (conjugal, connubial, marital, matrimonial). (various references)

French

support, mariage, fiançailles, conversion, adoption. (various references)

German

Eintreten (advocacy, come, come in, enlist, enter, enter upon, espouse, eventuate, eventuation, fall, go in, join, kick down, kick in, occur, perform, set in, step in, to eventuate, to tread in, to tread into, tread in, wear in). (various references)

Greek 

γάμοσ (bridal, marriage, match, matrimony, nuptial, nuptials, spousals, wedding, wedlock), υιοθέτηση ιδέασ, υιοθέτηση (adoption). (various references)

Hebrew 

טקס � שואים. (various references)

Hungarian

kézfogó (betrothal). (various references)

Italian

entrare (come in, enter, entry, eventuate, eventuation, get in, go, go in, go out, join, occur, perform, soak in, step in, to enter, walk in), matrimonio (alliance, marriage, match, matrimony, wedding). (various references)

Manx

poosey (bridal, marriage, marry, matrimony, wed, wedding, wedlock), naishtey (betrothal, engage, engaged, engagement, pledge). (various references)

Pig Latin

espousalay.(various references)

Portuguese

esponsal, núpcias (marriage, nuptials, wedding), casamento (bridal, marriage, match, matrimony, nuptials, union, wedding, wedlock). (various references)

Romanian

nuntã (bridal, nuptials, wedding), logodnã (affiance, betrothal, engagement), cãsãtorie (marriage, matrimony, splice, tie, union, wedlock), aderare (adherence, adhering, stick). (various references)

Russian 

поддержка (backing, boost, comfort, furtherance, maintenance, nourishment, push, support, sustenance, sustenation, sustention). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

venčanje (marriage, wedding). (various references)

Spanish

desposorio (affiance), adopción (adoption, borrowing, passing), abogar (entry, eventuate, eventuation, occur, plead). (various references)

Swedish

vigsel (marriage, nuptials, wedding), stödjande (fosterage, supporting), förmälning (marriage), antagande (acceptance, adoption, assuming, assumption, engagement, guess, hypothesis, passage, passage of a bill, postulation, premise, supposition, suspicion), anslutning (accession, adhesion, affiliation, alignment, commemorating, connection, extension, patronage, proximity, support, turnout). (various references)

Thai

การนำมาใช้. (various references)

Turkish

evlenme (double harness, hymen, marital, marriage, match, matrimony, nuptial, sponsal, spousal, spousals), nikâh (marriage, marriage contract, nuptial, nuptials, spousal, spousals, wedding, wedlock), nişan (affiance, badge, betrothal, brand, butt, decoration, device, engagement, ensign, gong, Mark, medal, order, plume, sign, target), kabullenme, benimseme (adoption, appropiation). (various references)

Ukrainian

підтримка (aegis, aliment, alimentation, backing, boost, cheer, crutch, egis, favour, pick me up, prop, sanction, smiles, sponsorship, support, sustention, vindication). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự tán th� nh (acceptance, agreement, approbation, approval, assent, endorsement, fiat, imprimatur, indorsation, indorsement, o.k.), đám ăn hỏi. (various references)

disponsationis, sponsalia. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "espousal": espousals. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Espousal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: empisal, Esposa. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: sepalous.

-1 letter: spousal.

-2 letters: aslope, lapses, lapsus, loupes, louses, opuses, ousels, paseos, passel, pauses, pluses, pulses, saleps, sepals, slopes, soleus, spales, spouse, upases.

-3 letters: aloes, apses, lapse, lases, lasso, leaps, loess, lopes, loses, loupe, loups, louse, oases, opals, ousel, pales, paseo, pases, passe, pause, peals, pesos, pleas, poles, poses, posse, psoae, psoas, pules, pulse, puses.

+1 letter: espousals.

+2 letters: playhouses, plesiosaur, postulates, sporulates, supposable.

+3 letters: blasphemous, cloudscapes, deutoplasms, houseplants, leucoplasts, outsparkles, pelycosaurs, plesiosaurs, popularises, speculators, superalloys, sympetalous.

+4 letters: doublespeaks, expostulates, leprosariums, loudspeakers, nucleoplasms, polyanthuses, postulancies, prothalluses, psychosexual, speculations, superposable, teaspoonfuls, teaspoonsful.

+5 letters: blasphemously, hyperarousals, microcapsules, nucleocapsids, pasqueflowers, proconsulates, pseudoalleles, pseudoclassic, somatopleures, spontaneously, supercolossal, superloyalist, superovulates, superpersonal.