English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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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.
Adoption
(n.)
Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the
adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society
into another.
Adoption
(n.)
The choosing and making that to be one's own which
originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.