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Adoption   /ədˈɑpʃən/   Listen
Adoption

noun
1.
The act of accepting with approval; favorable reception.  Synonyms: acceptance, acceptation, espousal.  "The proposal found wide acceptance"
2.
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.
The appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source.  Synonym: borrowing.





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... of the monarchs at home made easy and natural the adoption of their position of supreme patrons of the church in Spanish America. In the colonies conquered, settled, and Christianized under their influence they had a completeness of control, not only over appointments, but over the establishment of new church centres ...
— European Background Of American History - (Vol. I of The American Nation: A History) • Edward Potts Cheyney
... to obtain and maintain our control over him. Thus our very disciplinary measures have become saner and more effective. No way-mark of our civilization registers greater progress than our abandonment of the criminal procedure against children and our adoption of the paternal spirit and method of our juvenile courts and reformatory measures. To our agencies for dealing with defectives and delinquents we have added the kindergarten and all the kindred ...
— Library Work with Children • Alice I. Hazeltine
... many successive days. Five of them suffered their dreadful fate before the eyes of the sixth, and, at length, it came his turn to be led to the stake. He was a stalwart, handsome fellow, who had been held as a slave for more than a year. He had refused several offers of adoption, preferring to retain the privilege of effecting an escape, if he could, to pledging his loyalty to the tribe. So, as a slave, he had been made to toil early and late for his savage masters. Now, having fruitlessly ...
— At War with Pontiac - The Totem of the Bear • Kirk Munroe and J. Finnemore
... and if Mr O'Connell wished to have then redressed, why not attempt to do so? The ministry are willing to assist him—the public feeling and the opinion of Parliament are decidedly in his favour; yet what measures have he or his followers proposed for the adoption of the legislature? The truth is, nothing annoys him more than the desire manifested by the premier and the Parliament to remove all just grounds of complaint, and therefore it is that he has fixed ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 • Various
... source of difficulty in the payment of foreign obligations to gold standard countries. Yet there were strong reasons in the habits of the people and in the industrial conditions of the country to forbid the adoption of gold and the disuse of silver as the actual money in circulation. The method adopted, that of the gold-exchange standard, ...
— Modern Economic Problems - Economics Vol. II • Frank Albert Fetter


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