Meaning of optant | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A person who lives in a region undergoing a change of sovereignty and thus may choose between retaining their old citizenship or opting for the citizenship of the new sovereignty.
2. A person who opts into, out of, or for something.

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Examples

“According to one authority, nearly 40,000 of the Sleswick Danes had become⟳ 'optants'—that is, had taken the 'option' of Danish nationality—or had emigrated, by the end⟳ of 1880.”

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