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reˈfashion, v.
[re- 5 a. Cf. F. refaçonner (16th c.).]
trans. To fashion anew.
1803W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. (1843) I. 459, I have begun to modernize—no, to refashion—Drayton's battle of Azincour. 1816― in Monthly Rev. LXXXI. 471 They.. have been much nationalized and refashioned in the transplantation. a1880Geo. Eliot A. Bede xvii, I might re⁓fashion life and character entirely after my own liking.
Hence reˈfashioning vbl. n. So reˈfashioner.
1799W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. (1843) I. 277 Milton and Klopstock, poets too good to undergo a refashioning. 1890Athenæum 1 Nov. 583/2 The genuine Chaucer poems in the same MS. have not been subjected to any such wholesale refashioning.
1800W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. VIII. 597 From that period the balance of erudition and talents began to incline toward the side of the reformers or refashioners. a1861Mrs. Browning Lett. R. H. Horne (1877) I. xxi. 108 The refashioners stand..too far from Chaucer's side. |