Definition of "optation" []

• The act of optating; a wish. (noun)

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• "At the present time there are eighteen members who were recruited by co-optation, that is to say invited by the Committee itself, to become members."
• "When men of color are disproportionately incarcerated because of these laws that have been passed in part through the co-optation of anti-violence rhetoric, the entire community, particularly women who are often the community caretakers, is negatively impacted."
• "There was a time when I would look at Kalamu's criticisms of co-optation re: the mainstream success of black women writers as pretty much just sour grapes."