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Definition of Adoption

1. Noun. The act of accepting with approval; favorable reception. "The proposal found wide acceptance"

2. Noun. A legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all privileges belonging to a natural child of the adoptive parents (including the right to inherit).

3. Noun. The appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source. "The borrowing of ancient motifs was very apparent"

Definition of Adoption

1. 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.

Definition of Adoption

1. Noun. 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. ¹

2. Noun. Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another. ¹

3. Noun. The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Adoption

1. the act of adopting [n -S] : ADOPTIVE [adj]

Medical Definition of Adoption

1. Voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be as one's own child, usually with legal confirmation. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Adoption

adoors adopt adopt out adoptabilities adoptability adoptable adopted adoptedly adoptee adoptees

adopter adopters adoptianism adoptianisms adopting adoption (current term) adoptionism adoptionisms adoptionist adoptionists

adoptions adoptious adoptive adoptive father adoptive fathers adoptive immunity adoptive mother adoptive mothers adoptive parent adoptive transfer

Literary usage of Adoption

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"Thus, although the institution of adoption came in conflict with the cult of nature, ... A chapter on adoption formed a part of the Convention's Civil Code, ..."

2. An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord by Joseph Whitaker (1869)
"An order of court is necessary to legalize the adoption. adoption puts the child adopted practically on the same footing as a child born tu the adopter in ..."

3. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"1 adoption.—adoption of children Is now by statute the law of the ... Ferrell, 47 Ind. 335, 1875, and article on The Law of adoption (reviewing Sewall v. ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"Nor had she any interest in them at the time of the adoption of that Constitution, except that after the death of John F. Hanks, in 1864, she may, perhaps, ..."

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