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optation

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

A wish; a desire.

countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Françaisoptation

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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