17 collocations for modernize

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But it ought to be known, that the printers or editors of the editions which are now read, have taken extensive liberty in modernizing his orthography, as well as that of other old authors still popular.

" Twenty-eight such corrections for the thirty-one pages of "Hamlet" give us about eight hundred and fifty for the nine hundred pages of the whole volume,eight hundred and fifty instances in which the alleged forger, who wished to obtain for his supposed fabrication the consideration due to antiquity, modernized the text, though he obtained thereby only a change of form, and not a single new reading, in any sense of the term!

SEE CABOT, RICHARD C. CADBURY, HENRY J. The peril of modernizing Jesus.

J.W. heard the singing and noted with high approval the variations which modernized the old order.

Frankly, there were plans already in the works for modernizing the plants.

Since 1878 Mr. Thommessen has been the editor, and he was the first to modernize the Norwegian press by printing cable dispatches, cartoons, caricatures and other illustrations.

To modernize an old prophecy, "out of the mouths of babes shall come much worldly wisdom."

Perhaps you will let me modernize a brief scene from Shakespeare, altering nothing essential, to illustrate how completely his spirit is the spirit of our troops in Flanders and France.

I have found it necessary myself to modernize to some extent the spelling of the quotations from early Italian in order to render it less bewildering to readers who may possibly, like myself, have no very profound knowledge of the antiquities of that tongue.

Surely a Greek dramatist of the first rank, come to life again in Goethe's age and entering into the heritage of this development, would have modernized both subject and form in the same way.

It is a great pity that so few of the recorders of aboriginal tales followed this principle; and it is strange that such neatly polished, arranged, and modernized tales as these should have been accepted so long as illustrations of primitive love.

If the poet wished to make a plausible tale of that period he could no more undertake to modernize his characters than could Tennyson in his Idylls.

Why don't you launch out, get a lift, and modernize things?" "My trouble is to keep the boats supplied with coal and stores.

Tegnér had modernized his hero and heroine in Frithiof's Saga.

They belonged to no particular author, but, like all folk-lore, were handled freely by the unknown poets, minstrels, and ballad reciters, who modernized their language, added to them, or corrupted them, and passed them along.

By Tomas de Comyn 357 (William Walton's 1821 translation modernized) Manila and Sulu in 1842.

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