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optation

optation noun: a wish; a desire.

Noun

optation (countable and uncountable, plural optations)

  1. (obsolete) A wish; a desire.
    • whilst they murmur against the present disposure of things, regulating determined realities unto their private optations, they rest not in their established natures1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
    • To this belong — optation, obtestation, interrogation.1577, Henry Peacham, The Garden of Eloquence

Forms of optation

pluraloptations

Origin of optation

From Latin optatio. See option.

Questions about optation

What does optation mean?
Optation means a wish; a desire.
What part of speech is optation?
Optation is a noun.
What is the plural of optation?
The plural of optation is optations.

Words near optation in the dictionary

  1. optants
  2. optate
  3. optated
  4. optates
  5. optating
  6. optation
  7. optations
  8. optative
  9. optatively
  10. optatives
  11. opted

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