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- noun Plural form of
fashioning .
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This tropological strategy was far from unusual in Evangelical self-fashionings, but Potkay demonstrates that unlike other Puritan spiritual autobiographies,
The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006
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And perhaps someone who's had a pint there recently can fill us ex-pats in on what are, I understand, radical re-fashionings of the interior ...
Great Guelph Photos and Cool Blog Links by Creative Guelphites 2008
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He exalts the Indian character; gathers comforts and joys and pleasing fashionings around their life; enlarges the sphere of their being, and asserts in them capacity to fill it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various
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They now appeared in other hues, in other fashionings.
Nocturne Frank Swinnerton 1933
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Clerks, messengers, store and shop keepers, and those belonging to that class, usually wear clothes of European cut and make, of different colors and fashionings, with shoes and hats, like anybody else.
The Liberian Exodus. An Account of Voyage of the First Emigrants in the Bark "Azor," and Their Reception at Monrovia, with a Description of Liberia--Its Customs and Civilization, Romances and Prospects. Alfred Brockenbrough Williams 1878
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I know not what acreage, and if you enter at some central point, you find yourself amid endless prospectives of sides, flitches, quarters, and whole carcasses, and fantastic vistas of sausages, blood-puddings, and the like artistic fashionings of the raw material, so that you come away wishing to live a vegetarian ever after.
London Films William Dean Howells 1878
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And, again, while showing him the reflex of nature in the poets, he will not be satisfied without sending him to Nature herself; urging him in country rambles to keep open eyes for the sweet fashionings and blendings of her operation around him; and in city walks to watch the
A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare George MacDonald 1864
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I am ashamed that you should look on the rude fashionings of a half-trained girl, you who must have seen all those splendid statues of which I have been told. "
Pearl-Maiden Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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The wayfarer in this Valley seeth in the fashionings of the True One nothing save clear providence, and at every moment saith: “No defect canst thou see in the creation of the God of Mercy: Repeat the gaze: Seest thou
The Seven Valleys and the Four Valleys 1817-1892 Bah��'u'll��h 1854
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