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volia

volia

English

Noun

volia

In Russian contexts: freedom, lack of restraint or constriction.
- 1995, Daniel Rancour-Laferriere, The Slave Soul of Russia, p. 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 2013, p. 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, p. 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.

Catalan

Verb

volia

first-person singular imperfect indicative form of voler
third-person singular imperfect indicative form of voler