espoused

Adjective

espoused (comparative more espoused, superlative most espoused)

1. Having been espoused or claimed; held (as a belief or position).
   • Contrary to most espoused wisdom, most distance hikers travel alone.2009, Don Defreeze, Please Read
   • Yet, all these potential criticisms run counter to the very espoused (if albeit non-universal) types of claims that critical researchers tend to make.2009, Carole Brooke, Critical Management Perspectives on Information Systems, page 21
2. Married, engaged, or in a committed monogamous relationship.
   • Eliezer immediately brought jewels of silver, jewels of gold, and raiment, and offered them to her as the espoused wife of Isaac.1866, Alexander Lindsay, Espoused to Christ, page 50
   • You could daily see a purely white common goose having become a monogamist, being paired with a Canada male bird, taking her lofty aerial flights in company with her foreign mate, forgettering her former, and her naturally domestic habits, appearing now as an espoused partner, and assuming in all...1866, Richard Hobson, Charles Waterton : His Home, Habits, and Handiwork, page 86