Assert and Espouse

verb

• State categorically.
  • synonyms: asseverate, maintain
• To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
  • usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
  • synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
• Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
  • usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
  • synonyms: put forward
• Assert to be true.
  • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
  • synonyms: insist

• (v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
• (v.t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
• (v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

verb

• Choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans.
  • usage: "She followed the feminist movement"; "The candidate espouses Republican ideals"
  • synonyms: adopt, follow
• Take in marriage.
  • synonyms: marry, get married, wed, conjoin, hook up with, get hitched with
• Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own.
  • usage: "She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith"
  • synonyms: embrace, adopt, sweep up

• (v.t.) To betroth; to promise in marriage; to give as spouse.
• (v.t.) 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.
• (v.t.) To take as spouse; to take to wife; to marry.