What does "adoption" mean?
Adoption: Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.
Additional senses
- 2.The choosing and making that to be one's own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions. Jer. Taylor.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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