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/ədˈɑpʃən/ Listen

noun

Adoption n.

The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as one's own child.

Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.

The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.

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Etymology of 'Adoption'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... men, by which they can speedily obtain their objects through a general or partial strike paralyzing the food supply or other national necessities. This is obviously a dangerous and double-edged weapon, the adoption of which by other sections of the community—the Army and Navy, for instance, or the medical ...

— The History of England - A Study in Political Evolution • A. F. Pollard

... despite all that human wisdom and forethought could devise to avert it, as the cleansing of the city from many impurities by officials appointed for the purpose, the refusal of entrance to all sick folk, and the adoption of many precautions for the preservation of health; despite also humble supplications addressed to God, and often repeated both in public procession and otherwise, by the devout; towards the beginning of the spring of the said ...

— The Decameron, Volume I • Giovanni Boccaccio

... Leavenworth, to Daniel's home, to learn the verdict of the people of Kansas. As the returns came in, their hope of seeing Kansas become the first woman suffrage state quickly faded. Neither their amendment nor the Negroes' polled enough votes for adoption. Their woman suffrage amendment, however, received only 1,773 votes less than the Republican-sponsored Negro amendment, and to have accomplished this in a hard-fought bitter campaign against powerful opponents gave them ...

— Susan B. Anthony - Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian • Alma Lutz

... the happy mother, sullenly extend a hand, which the major grasped heartily, and over which there dropped something which, though a drop of water, was not a rain-drop. Then did Spidertracks return to the home of his adoption, and lavish the stores of his memory; and for days his name was famous, and his liquor was paid for by ...

— Romance of California Life • John Habberton

... no precedent shall be established to the prejudice of either the human or the monikin dialect, by the adoption of the Latin language on ...

— The Monikins • J. Fenimore Cooper

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