Meaning of newfashion | Babel Free

Definitions

To modernise; remodel in the latest style.

Examples

“From the duke they would have taken his birthright; the church and religion they would have cast in a new mould; the bishops and clerks they would have new-fashioned, if not utterly laid aside; banished many of the nobles; …”

“He used to observe that poets and orators abound most in the corruptest times, and we have been fining and newfashioning the English tongue, whilst English manners are become wild.”

“Not a few were given to him by the old romancers; but these he has new-fashioned to his needs.”

“Since the period of original composition, I have new-fashioned this introductory stanza after comparing it with Mr. Sotheby, to whom I am accordingly indebted for much of its present structure.”

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