Espouse (verb)
es-pows
Adopt or support (a cause, belief, or way of life)
Late Middle English (in the sense ‘take as a spouse’): from Old French espouser, from Latin sponsare, from sponsus ‘betrothed’, past participle of spondere.
Example sentences
“She espoused the cause with nothing but passion”
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