unadoptとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

unadopt (third-person singular simple present unadopts, present participle unadopting, simple past and past participle unadopted)

1. (transitive) To give up (someone or something previously adopted).
   • 1990, Charles F. Stanley, Eternal Security, page 35:

     Persons holding to a view that allows for one to be unadopted must confront another major theological hurdle. Why would God choose before the foundation of the world to adopt someone He knew He would eventually have to unadopt?

   • 2014, D. W. Duke, The Duke Legacy, page 268:

     She told us that she wanted to 'unadopt' Chandi. I explained to her that although our firm does not practice adoption law, I know that an adoption is like a live birth. It can't be undone, assuming the adoption was done properly.