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Definition of Refashions
1. refashion [v] - See also: refashion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Refashions
Literary usage of Refashions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1915)
"He fashions and refashions material things. He puts them into forms in which they
serve his wants. Such is obviously the nature of the carpenter's work, ..."
2. The Development of the English Novel by Wilbur Lucius Cross (1899)
"She refashions the church on Christ as a human ideal, placing the Church of
England by the side of 'the Brotherhood of Jesus,' in the spirit of criticism ..."
3. Literary Criticism from the Elizabethan Dramatists by John Tucker Murray, David Klein, Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, William Winter, Rosamond Gilder, Felix Emmanuel Schelling, William Dean Howells, Mary Findlater, Jane Helen Findlater, Allan McAulay, William Randolph Hearst (1908)
"... 1620, which, although it refashions the old and trite material, — the lustful
king and the steadfast maiden, long-lost brothers, a feud between two ..."
4. The Riddle of the Universe at the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1900)
"... on a primitive plan that only deviates more or less to one side or other in
its very constant features, and still develops and refashions itself daily. ..."
5. The Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1909)
"Art takes life as part of her rough material, recreates it, and refashions it in
fresh forms, is absolutely indifferent to fact, invents, imagines, dreams, ..."
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