Adoption vs Initiation - What's the difference?
adoption | initiation |
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.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
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, chapter=1 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.
(computing) Transfer between an old system to another (usually better) system.
The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced; as, initiation into a society, into business, literature, etc.
The form or ceremony by which a person is introduced into any society; mode of entrance into an organized body; especially, the rite of admission into a secret society or order.
As nouns the difference between adoption and initiation
is that adoption is 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 while initiation is the act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced; as, initiation into a society, into business, literature, etc.adoption
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(en noun)citation, passage=“The story of this adoption is, of course, the pivot round which all the circumstances of the mysterious tragedy revolved. Mrs. Yule had an only son, namely, William, to whom she was passionately attached ; but, like many a fond mother, she had the desire of mapping out that son's future entirely according to her own ideas. […]”}}
- A Chinese baby girl was given away for adoption .
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