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Embracement vs Adoption - What's the difference?

embracement | adoption |

As nouns the difference between embracement and adoption

is that embracement is a clasp in the arms; embrace while 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.

embracement

English

Alternative forms

*imbracement

Noun

(en noun)
  • A clasp in the arms; embrace.
  • *, II.8:
  • *:What was that but a kinde, tender, and fatherly farwell which he tooke of his children? representing the last adiewes, and parting imbracements , which at our death we give unto our dearest issues?
  • (obsolete) State of being contained; enclosure.
  • (obsolete) Willing acceptance.

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    adoption

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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=
    • , title= , chapter=1 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 .
  • 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.
    • Our school is considering the adoption of Wiktionary as the standard dictionary.