adoption

• the act of accepting with approval
• a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood
• the appropriation (of ideas or words etc) from another source
• The act of adopting, or state of being adopted
• Admission to a more intimate relation
• The choosing and making that to be one´s own which originally was not so

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