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volage, a.
Also 6 Sc. vollage.
[a. OF. and F. volage (vɔlaʒ), f. voler:—L. volāre to fly.]
Giddy, foolish; fickle, inconstant. (In later literary use reintroduced from mod. French.) Also in comb. volage-brained.
a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 1284 She fulfilled of lustynesse, That was not yit twelve yeer of age, With herte wylde, and thought volage. c1386― Manciple's T. 135 Whan phebus wyf had sent for hir lemman Anon þay wrouȝten al her wil volage. 1402Quixley Ballades xvii. in Yorksh. Arch. Jrnl. (1909) XX. 49 Vnto Gawayn may he be resemblyng, Curteys of loue, bot he was ouer volage. 1480Caxton Ovid's Metam. xiv. ii. (Roxb.) 56 b, He [Eneas] hath the herte harde, volage & more orageo[us] than the see. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 194 A woman, variable as the winde Being of hir love unstable and volage. c1520Barclay Jugurtha (1557) 66 As a volage brained man he fullye determined agayne to begynne and continue the warre..rather then to yelde hym selfe to deathe or captivitie. 1549Compl. of Scotlande i. 22 Oure vit is ouer febil, oure ingyne ouer harde, oure thochtis ouer vollage, ande oure ȝeiris ouer schort. a1722Ld. Fountainhall Decisions (1759) I. 484 Some doubted how far such volage expressions inferred treason, being but lubricum linguæ. a1773E. Montagu in Garrick's Private Corr. (1832) II. 375 Lord Lyttelton is more volage, more difficult to fix, than any of Messieurs les Maccaronis. [1825Jamieson Suppl. s.v., He's unco volage o' his siller.] 1845Jane Robinson Whitehall xxii, As naturally alluring as beds of flowers to the volage butterfly. 1859Meredith R. Feverel xxxvi, Both [parties] are volage: wine, tobacco, and the moon, influence both alike. 1865‘Ouida’ Strathmore vi. I. 94 The volage, and somewhat indiscreet Princesse de Lurine.
Hence † ˈvolageness. Obs.
1633Ld. Wariston Diary (S.H.S.) 179 The fear of folks speaking, rayling, and jesting at my sudaine chainge and volagnes disuaded me. |