Do we say adaption or adaptation

adaption 4 occurrences

The decline of the town was due partly to the break-up of the Hanseatic system; partly to the rise of English ports and manufacturing towns; but still more, and especially as compared with our Flemish cities, to the silting of the Zwin, and the want of adaption in its waterways to the needs of great ships and modern navigation.

The patriots of Belfast were not more fortunate in the adaption of their civilitiesthey addressed the Convention, in a strain of great piety, to congratulate them on the success of their arms in the "cause of civil and religious liberty.

The patriots of Belfast were not more fortunate in the adaption of their civilitiesthey addressed the Convention, in a strain of great piety, to congratulate them on the success of their arms in the "cause of civil and religious liberty.

It is not the fear of consequences, not of giving offense, which determines the adaption of the latter person's advice, while it has been rejected when given by the first.

adaptation 714 occurrences

The first day's session (May 16) demonstrated the successful adaptation of the structure to its uses.

He put his own educational ideas into practice at Yannina and Constantinople, and contributed to the great achievement of his contemporary, the Khiot Adhamandios Koráis, who settled in Paris and there evolved a literary adaptation of the Romaic patois to supersede the lifeless travesty of Attic style traditionally affected by ecclesiastical penmen.

DONAHOE, EDWARD L. Three years, 1924-1927, the story of a new idea and its successful adaptation, by Edward L. Donahoe and Louis M. Brockway; with a postscript by H. L. Mencken.

© on adaptation & illus.

Careless love, new words and new music adaptation by Huddie Ledbetter. Transcribed, selected & edited by John A. Lomax & Alan Lomax.

Green corn, adaptation of music & new words by Huddie Ledbetter.

Martha Ledbetter (W) & Alan Lomax (A & C); 16Jul64; R341414. Shorty George, new words and new music adaptation by Huddie Ledbetter.

(Classics illustrated, no. 34) NM: adaptation & illus.

NM: adaptation, notes & vocabulary.

NM: adaptation.

Adaptation by Leo Lerman.

NM: adaptation & illus.

By Johanna Spyri, adaptation: Florence Hayes, illus.:

By G. Collodi, adaptation: Allen Chaffee, illus.:

NM: new adaptation.

(Classic comics) NM: adaptation & illus.

NM: new adaptation.

© on adaptation; 24Mar47; A11745.

NM: adaptation.

NM: adaptation.

NM: adaptation.

Does not this confirm us in the view that the original and still surviving function of our intellectual life is to guide us in the practical adaptation of our expectancies and activities?

It was evinced both in a general manner and likewise in direct dramatic adaptation.

43 (an adaptation of the apparatus used by the German investigator, Janka) will be used.

She read with keen eyes the miserable secret of her father's strange guest in the poverty-stricken walls, in the mute evidences of menial handicraft performed in loneliness and privation, in this piteous adaptation of an accident to save the conscious shame of premeditated toil.

Do we say   adaption   or  adaptation