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

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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.

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