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Definition of Modernizer
1. n. One who modernizes.
Definition of Modernizer
1. Noun. an advocate of modernization ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Modernizer
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Modernizer
Literary usage of Modernizer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes, Historical and Descriptive, on the Priory of Inchmahome: With by William Macgregor Stirling (1815)
"An interesting account of Sir John's death, and Wallace's lamentation over his
remains, is given by the abridger and modernizer* of Blind Harry's History of ..."
2. Homerica, Emendations and Elucidations of the Odyssey by Thomas Leyden Agar (1908)
"It would be useless from every point of view to attempt to restore fully the
integrity of a passage on which the hand of the modernizer has fallen so ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... in his rôle of modernizer of Egypt, sent various scientific expeditions to
explore the Nile, which was now traced almost to the equator. ..."
4. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1899)
"The hand of the restorer and remodeller is the fist of a destroyer, the modernizer
is equally dangerous—when will the conservative repairer be called in ? ..."
5. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"... he found a congenial occupation as a translator of the Greek and Latin poets,
and as a modernizer of Chaucer. II When Dryden settled in London, ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1819)
"... to the modernizer have been superadded: such, for instance, as that in which
it is said of a certain causeway in China, that ' on both sides are great ..."
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