Spouse vs. Espouse — What's the Difference?

A spouse is a significant other in a marriage, civil union, or common-law marriage. The term is gender neutral, whereas a male spouse is a husband and a female spouse is a wife.

Adopt or support (a cause, belief, or way of life)

A husband or wife, considered in relation to their partner.

Marry

A marriage partner; a husband or wife.

To adhere to or advocate

To marry; wed.

To take in marriage; marry.

A person in a marriage or marital relationship.

To give (a woman) in marriage.

(dated) To wed; to espouse.

(transitive) To become/get married to.

A man or woman engaged or joined in wedlock; a married person, husband or wife.

(transitive) To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause).

A married man, in distinction from a spousess or married woman; a bridegroom or husband.

To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse.

To wed; to espouse.

To take as spouse; to take to wife; to marry.

A person's partner in marriage

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;