vouluadj.n.

/vuːˈluː/

Etymology: French, past participle of vouloir to wish, want.

Contrived, deliberate, studied. Also as n. (esp. collective).

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > affected or put on for effect

affectate?1555

affectated1574

affected1578

artificious1579

affective1630

theatrical1649

faux1684

false1791

posed1909

voulu1909

pseudish1938

hokey1945

pseudo1949

posé1958

plastic1963

1909 E. Nesbit Daphne in Fitzroy St. xiii. 207 Perhaps there's something more delicate, less voulu, in our little dinner as it is. The poignant beauty of the incomplete.

1938 E. Bowen Death of Heart iii. iv. 389 There is a narrowness about fantasy: it figures only the voulu part of the self.

1948 F. R. Leavis Great Trad. ii. 81 There is certainly something of that quality [sc. insincerity] in Daniel Deronda..an element of the tacitly voulu.

1957 L. Durrell Justine ii. 132 The idea is not spontaneous, but voulue.

1959 Encounter Dec. 64/1 All de Sade's excesses were ‘voulus’. They were a scientific investigation into sex.

1962 Listener 17 May 885/3 Here and there the impression of the voulu and the freakish cannot be avoided.

1968 Punch 3 Apr. 507/1 They simply give an impression of voulu oddity, nearer to a harsher, more explicitly sexual A. E. Coppard than to Carson McCullers.

1974 Times 2 Feb. 7/6 But her knowledge of people as such? Sometimes profound, sometimes voulu.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

单词	voulu
释义	vouluadj.n. /vuːˈluː/ Etymology: French, past participle of vouloir to wish, want. Contrived, deliberate, studied. Also as n. (esp. collective). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [adjective] > affected or put on for effect affectate?1555 affectated1574 affected1578 artificious1579 affective1630 theatrical1649 faux1684 false1791 posed1909 voulu1909 pseudish1938 hokey1945 pseudo1949 posé1958 plastic1963 1909 E. Nesbit Daphne in Fitzroy St. xiii. 207 Perhaps there's something more delicate, less voulu, in our little dinner as it is. The poignant beauty of the incomplete. 1938 E. Bowen Death of Heart iii. iv. 389 There is a narrowness about fantasy: it figures only the voulu part of the self. 1948 F. R. Leavis Great Trad. ii. 81 There is certainly something of that quality [sc. insincerity] in Daniel Deronda..an element of the tacitly voulu. 1957 L. Durrell Justine ii. 132 The idea is not spontaneous, but voulue. 1959 Encounter Dec. 64/1 All de Sade's excesses were ‘voulus’. They were a scientific investigation into sex. 1962 Listener 17 May 885/3 Here and there the impression of the voulu and the freakish cannot be avoided. 1968 Punch 3 Apr. 507/1 They simply give an impression of voulu oddity, nearer to a harsher, more explicitly sexual A. E. Coppard than to Carson McCullers. 1974 Times 2 Feb. 7/6 But her knowledge of people as such? Sometimes profound, sometimes voulu. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.n.1909
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