volta

Definition

A turning; a time (chiefly used in phrases signifying that the part is to be repeated).

Etymology

From Italian volta. Doublet of volte.

Example Sentences

• "[…][Larmona] Ash describes how “conversion arrives like a volta [poetic shift]^([sic]) in a person's life.” The metaphor is apt, imagining one's spiritual life as a poem, an authored thing, and not preserved on vellum either, but open to revision."