adopteen.
/əˌdɒpˈtiː/, U.S. /əˌdɑpˈti/ A person who is or has been adopted, esp. as a child.
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1849 P. M. de Colquhoun Summ. Rom. Civil Law I. 545 Adoption..consisted in the establishment of a fictitious parentage reciprocally binding on adoptor and adoptee.
1867 L. M. Child Romance of Republic i. xiii. 151 It's plain that this lively little adoptée of Mrs. Delano's has never been much in good society.
1892 Sat. Rev. 6 Aug. 179/1 That odd provision of French law which permits adoption—in case the adoptee has saved the life of the adopter.
1922 Man 22 154 No one has any claim to cancel an adoption formally made or ratified, but the adoptee himself may repudiate it.
1962 Guardian 16 Nov. 8/7 The..psychiatric figures for adoptees.
1992 Utne Reader Jan. 8/2 As for adoptees' wariness of intimacy, I find that I am able to have more intimate relationships than most people.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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