adoption

adoption is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] 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.

[2] Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.

[3] The choosing and making that to be one`s own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions. Jer. Taylor.

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