5 collocations for modernise

217; v. 77. MODERNISING an author, iv. 315.

Coleridge seems to have had some project for modernising Dekker for Fanny Kelly.

He disapproved of Lord Hailes, for having modernised the language of the ever-memorable John Hales of Eton, in an edition which his Lordship published of that writer's works.

He recognised it frankly, and built up a great theory to account for the fact, incorporating and modernising great portions of the received Roman explanations of the fact.

They had a sprinkling of serious blood in their arteriesa tincture of well- balanced, modernised Puritanism in their veinsand they honestly thought that if any balm had to come out of Gilead, it would first have to pass through Presbyterianism, and that if any physician had to appear he would have to be a Calvinistic preacher.

5 collocations for  modernise