Adoption is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ADOPTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of adopting
• the action or fact of adopting or being adopted
• 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.
• Admission to a more intimate relation; reception; as, the adoption of persons into hospitals or monasteries, or of one society into another.
• The choosing and making that to be one\'s own which originally was not so; acceptance; as, the adoption of opinions.
• the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception
• 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)
• the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source

Words related to ADOPTION

adopt8 adoptions12

Words that contain ADOPTION

adoptions12 readoption13 adoptionism16 adoptionist14 readoptions14 adoptionisms17 adoptionists15

How to use ADOPTION in a sentence

• And though it is true that I applied a remedy, I was not driven to the adoption of it, till I had performed more than half my tour.
• The new premier proceeded with caution in the adoption of measures to relieve the burdens of the people and straighten out the finances, which were in great disorder.
• Certain it is that the greater and the better portion of his works in prose and verse was composed during his residence in the land of his adoption.
• This can only be done by the active laying aside of the old race-standard and the conscious adoption of the new one.
• This expedient was wholly unknown before the adoption of our constitution.
• Here, then, the chances are as thirteen to nine2 in favor of subsequent amendment, rather than of the original adoption of an entire system.
• The credit of such an acquisition really does belong to the men who secured the adoption of the treaty by which it was acquired.
• The state of language in Europe must have greatly contributed to the adoption of public instruction, by means of dramatic representation.
• Sapor, after a while, became convinced of the folly of his proceedings, and resolved on the adoption of a wholly new policy.
• The most striking peculiarity which the ground-plans of the palaces disclose is the uniform adoption throughout of straight and parallel lines.
• This could be done only by the adoption and enforcement of questionable methods.
• The circumstance of many of the architects here being Italian, may probably, in some measure, account for the general adoption of this style.
• And as regards his own history, the contrast between the Franklin of 1723 and 1783 was as great as that which has come upon the city of his adoption.
• Once found adequate, its absolute utility merely depends upon universal adoption.
• It was rightly felt that the adoption of a universal language is a matter for private initiative.
• For adoption is said of God in likeness to human custom.
• On the part of Franklin, no desire seems to have existed in his mind for its adoption.
• Franck Belgian of Liege by birth, and Parisian only by adoption, Cesar Franck nevertheless precipitated modern French music.
• Ratification by three fourths of the States was sufficient under the Constitution for the adoption of an amendment to it.
• At about the same time copies of the proclamation issued by the American Commission in Manila reached them and still further influenced them toward the adoption of this purpose.
• I failed to secure the adoption of this plan, but later the training of nurses was inaugurated in connection with hospital work at the old Civil Hospital, St.
• I have now stated, as I understand it, the condition of things upon the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
• It did exist in the States before the adoption of this Constitution, and at that time.
• Hume found no obstacle in his speculations to the adoption of all necessary and useful conceptions in the sphere to which he limited his mature interests.
• Butler used this plate for the first time this season, and found it a success, and there is no question of its general adoption.
• The adoption of a truer standard of value would tear up the lust of accumulation by the roots, and would thus effect a real cure.
• One thing upon which almost all would have agreed, however, was the adoption of the historical point of view in the approach to Hebrew poetry.

Similar words containing ADOP without suffix tion

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