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optations

optations is the plural of optation.

Meaning of optation

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

Questions about optations

What is optations the plural of?
Optations is the plural of optation.

Words near optations in the dictionary

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

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