optation

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin optatio. See option.

Noun

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optation (countable and uncountable, plural optations)

  1. (obsolete) A wish; a desire.
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: [], 2nd edition, London: [] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, [], →OCLC:
      whilst they murmur against the present disposure of things, regulating determined realities unto their private optations, they rest not in their established natures
    • 1577, Henry Peacham, The Garden of Eloquence
      To this belong — optation, obtestation, interrogation.
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