volia
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Russian воля (volja).
Noun
[edit]volia (uncountable)
- In Russian contexts: freedom; lack of restraint or constriction.
- 1995, Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, The Slave Soul of Russia, page 198:
- The new restrictions being placed on the bride added up to a loss of her former “volia”.
- 1996, Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy, Folio Society, published 2013, page 115:
- The educated classes had always feared that a peasant volia would soon degenerate into anarchic licence and violent revenge against figures of authority.
- 2001, Geoffrey Hosking, Russia and the Russians, page 229:
- Their integration into the imperial army was causing concern and resentment among the rank and file, who feared losing their volia and their participatory institutions.
Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Verb
[edit]volia
Fijian
[edit]Verb
[edit]volia
- to buy, to purchase
- to redeem, to ransom
- to compensate