espousement
English
Etymology
Compare Old French espousement.
Noun
espousement (countable and uncountable, plural espousements)
- The act of espousing; espousal.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for espousement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)