Words Like ADOPTION
We have put together a list of words that are similar to ADOPTION.
14 Alternative Words Similar to adoption
3 examples of adoption
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the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another
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the adoption of opinions
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the proposal found wide acceptance
9 definitions of adoption
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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.
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Admission to a more intimate relation; reception.
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The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance.
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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)
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the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source
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the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception
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The act of adopting or taking as one's own; a choosing for use, or by way of preference or approval; assumption; formal acceptance: as, the adoption of a distinctive dress; he favored the adoption of the bill; the adoption of a new word into a language.
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The act of taking into an affiliated relation; admission to some or all of the privileges of natural kinship or membership: as, the adoption of a child; adoption into a tribe; a son by adoption.
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In theology, that act of divine grace by which, through Christ, those who have been justified “are taken into the number and enjoy the liberties and privileges of the children of God.”