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Volte-face

noun
1.
A major change in attitude or principle or point of view.  Synonyms: about-face, policy change, reversal.






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"Volte-face" Quotes from Famous Books



... Allied statesmanship of Bulgaria's political evolution is specially noteworthy because that evolution was both complicated and obscure. In fact, its roots reach down to the fundamental aspirations of the Bulgarian people. Bulgaria's present volte-face is no chance product of panic, but a logical step in her national policy. Its consequences thus promise to be not ephemeral, but lasting. An understanding of the factors that brought about the existing situation is therefore ...
— World's War Events, Volume III • Various

... firm of London solicitors, and his address and his doings remained a mystery. He was alive, he professed robust health, and in reply to Mrs. Holmes's frantically expressed hope that he was adopting no course that might discredit his father's name, he twitted her with intellectual volte-face to the views of Philistia, but at the same time assured her that he was doing nothing which the most self-righteous bourgeois would ...
— The Red Planet • William J. Locke



Words linked to "Volte-face" :   undoing, policy change, change



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