Related to Optation: renewer, call on, try out, reassessed


n.1.The act of optating; a wish.
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Lindon and Leigh Mercer (but also Sotades the Obscene, Hrabanus Maurus, Optation Porphyrius, Su Hui, etc.
Thankfully, some traditionalists, recognizing the risk of intellectual co- optation, have adopted a more Indigenous stance and focused on actualizing their own powers and ignoring opposing external powers (72).
The government of India had used a combination of coercion and co- optation to contain dissent, and the success of the strategy had led many in New Delhi to ignore the possibility of renewed violence arising from infiltration from Pakistan.