ADOPTIONS

Noun

adoptions

plural of adoption

Source: Wiktionary


ADOPTION

A*dop"tion, n. Etym: [L. adoptio, allied to adoptare to adopt: cf. F. adoption.]

1. 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.

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 one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions. Jer. Taylor.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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UNINFORMATIVELY

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