Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Giddy.

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  • adjective obsolete Light; giddy.

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  • adjective Fickle, capricious, reckless.

Etymologies

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From Old French volage, from Latin volaticus.

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Examples

  • She was Medea, and if Jason was volage, woe to Creusa!

    The Newcomes 2006

  • This beautiful insect, so common about Florence and Rome, and in central Italy, is extremely rare about Naples; nor does this seem to be from their disliking the sea, for we never saw so many as at Pesaro, on the Adriatic; -- no insect, then, is more volage, or uncertain as to place, than the firefly.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 Various

  • "Le lendemain, Phillis peu sage Aurait donne moutons et chien Pour un baiser que le volage A Lisette donnait pour rien."

    Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley 1928

  • "Le lendemain, Phillis peu sage Aurait donne moutons et chien Pour un baiser que le volage A Lisette donnait pour rien."

    Crome Yellow Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1921

  • Pierre volage ne queult mousse (A rolling stone gathers no moss).

    Quotations 1919

  • Pierre volage ne queult mousse (A rolling stone gathers no moss).

    Quotations 1919

  • Mildred has perhaps inherited her father's volage nature where the other sex are concerned, and early shows tendencies which ought to be sympathetically checked and directed.

    Three Things Elinor Glyn 1903

  • But now suppose that your mind is in its nature discursive, erratic, subject to electric attractions and repulsions, volage; it may be impossible for you to compel your attention except by taking away all external disturbances.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • But now suppose that your mind is in its nature discursive, erratic, subject to electric attractions and repulsions, volage; it may be impossible for you to compel your attention except by taking away all external disturbances.

    The Poet at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • If I had not already shown myself up to my reader as a garcon volage of the first water, perhaps I should now hesitate about confessing that I half regretted the short space during which it should be my privilege to act as the guide and mentor of my two friends.

    The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 3 Charles James Lever 1839

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