optation

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noun

A wish; a desire.

OriginLatin optatio →
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Meanings

nounoptation (countable and uncountable, plural optations)

plural optations

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableA wish; a desire.

    1577, Henry Peacham, The Garden of Eloquence To this belong — optation, obtestation, interrogation.

    1 more example

    whilst they murmur against the present disposure of things, regulating determined realities unto their private optations, they rest not in their established natures

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latinoptatio
  2. Englishoptation

From Latin optatio. See option.

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APA

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Chicago

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