Word.ws English Dictionary

spousing

spousing is the present participle and gerund of spouse.

Meaning of spouse

Verb

spouse (third-person singular simple present spouses, present participle spousing, simple past and past participle spoused)

  1. (dated) To wed; to espouse.
    • Do you stand possess’d
      Of any proof against the honourableness
      Of Lady Auranthe, our new-spoused daughter?1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, act III, scene II, verses 212-214

See all 2 meanings of spouse

Questions about spousing

What is spousing the present participle and gerund of?
Spousing is the present participle and gerund of spouse.

Words near spousing in the dictionary

  1. spousess
  2. spousesses
  3. spouseware
  4. spousies
  5. spousification
  6. spousing
  7. spousy
  8. spout
  9. spout off
  10. spout out
  11. spouted

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: spousing (page history and authors); spouse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “spousing.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/spousing. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.