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Definition of Modernizes
1. modernize [v] - See also: modernize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Modernizes
Literary usage of Modernizes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1897)
"He corrects and modernizes the spelling and grammar of these documents. Comparing his
reprint of Clark's Memoir with Mr. Dillon's extracts, we find that he ..."
2. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1919)
"White's "A Certain Rich Man" modernizes and applies the Bible parable to life in
our day in our industrial conditions. Even the romances of today, ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1907)
"?his certainly modernizes the verse, and makes it appear perfect ; but the ellipsis
of he preposition after " than " is still felt, •hile the effect of ..."
4. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1908)
"Mr. Wilkinson pursues this same object but no longer relying on metaphysical
considerations, as do his predecessors, he modernizes the issue and would make ..."
5. Classical Philology by University of Chicago press, JSTOR (Organization) (1906)
"The conclusions reached in the paper are that Plutarch modernizes most of his
allusions to all matters pertaining to the theater to fit the theater of his ..."
6. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1887)
"Shelley creates his own my- >r rather modernizes that of Moschus and Bion whose
e also translated. ..."
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