Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To alter from a modern fashion or style; give an ancient or old-fashioned form or fashion to.
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Examples
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He speaks with rapture of his black-letter Chaucer, which he proposes to have bound 'in Gothique,' so as to unmodernize as much as possible its outward appearance.
The Bibliotaph and Other People Leon H. Vincent
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