Modernise vs Newfashion - What's the difference?
modernise | newfashion |
To modernise; remodel in the latest style.
*1744 , William Oldys, Edward Harley Oxford (Earl of), The Harleian miscellany :
*1867 , William Hylton Dyer Longstaffe, Memoirs of the life of Mr. Ambrose Barnes :
*1881 , John Addington Symonds, Renaissance in Italy :
*1977 , John Boening, The Reception of classical German literature in England :
Recently come into fashion; new-fashioned.
*1957 , Margaret Elizabeth Bell, Daughter of Wolf House :
*1964 , Men's wear: Volume 149:
*1975 , America's textiles: Reporter/bulletin edition: Volume 4:
As verbs the difference between modernise and newfashion
is that modernise is while newfashion is to modernise; remodel in the latest style.As an adjective newfashion is
recently come into fashion; new-fashioned.newfashion
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Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- 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.
Adjective
(en adjective)- Killerwhale House already knows what to do in these 'newfashion' times.
- An entirely newfashion concept.
- The dresses will be narrower at the hips, midriffs bare and the classic skirt will take on newfashion impetus.
