Optation

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A wish; a desire. countable, obsolete, uncountable

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

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

Etymology

From Latin optatio. See option.

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