adopt vs espouse

adopt

verb
  • To take or receive as one's own what is not so naturally. 

  • To take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be in the place of, or as, one's own child. 

  • To obtain (a pet) from a shelter or the wild. 

  • To take by choice into the scope of one's responsibility. 

  • To select and take or approve. 

  • To beat an opponent ten times in a row. 

espouse

verb
  • To accept, support, or take on as one’s own (an idea or a cause). 

  • To become/get married to. 

How often have the words adopt and espouse occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )