Adoption Synonyms & Definitions

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• AdoptionDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) The act of adopting, or state of being adopted; voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be the same as ones own child.
2. (n.) The choosing and making that to be ones own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.
3. (n.) Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.

• AdoptionistDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (n.) One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of God not by nature but by adoption.