meaning of adoption
1. The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as ones own child.
2. Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.
3. The choosing and making that to be ones own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.
4. the appropriation of ideas or words etc from another source; "the borrowing of ancient motifs was very
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Related Words
adoption | adoptionist |
