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volte-facenoun a changing from one policy or point of view to virtually its exact oppositethe novelist's unexpected volte-face from experimentalism to traditional narrative form about-face, about-turn(British), flip-flop, reversal, turnabout, turnaround, U-turn bait and switch, switcheroodenial, disaffirmance, disavowal, disownment, recantation, renunciation, repudiation, retractionreconsideration, retreat, second thoughthesitation, indecision, irresolution, shilly-shallying, vacillation, wavering, wobbling(also wabbling) change of heart in 1819 |