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1794 W. Woodfall et al. Impartial Rep. Deb. Two Houses Parl. III. 98 The Lord..appealed to the Noble Lord who made the motion, to remove the difficulty himself, by consenting to reshape his motion, and take away the objectionable part.

1827 T. Carlyle Richter in Edinb. Rev. June 186 The character is, as it were, forcibly crushed into some foreign mould, in the hope of being thereby reshaped and beautified.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. ii. i. 92 The wreck and dissolution must reshape itself into a social Arrangement as it can and may.

1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. iv. 48 It has been reshaped to suit better the convenience of those who used it.

1897 S. Baring-Gould Bladys Pref. 7 I allowed [the idea] to re-shape itself, in fresh scenes, with fresh developments, and fresh incidents.

1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist ii. 73 The change of fortune which was reshaping the world about him into a vision of squalor and insincerity.

1935 G. Hicks Great Trad. (rev. ed.) i. 12 The tradition had to reshape itself or be submerged, and submergence was its fate.

1951 E. E. Evans-Pritchard Social Anthropol. v. 86 The theories have been shaped and reshaped by this steady growth of knowledge.

1970 R. H. Beck et al. Changing Struct. Europe 5 In a sense, society may have to reshape itself.

2001 C. Freeland But is it Art? v. 130 Such paintings are path-breaking in the way they reshape our perceptions.

2008 H. Saint-Onge & J. L. Chatzkel Beyond Deal i. iii. 77 (heading) Case example: how Symantec completely reshaped itself.

1872 Galaxy May 711/2 With blind people fineness of touch and other traits of delicate sensitiveness sooner or later replace sight, and..on the recovery of vision all preconceived notions and mental habits have to suffer a reshaping, which is always inconvenient, and often painful or pernicious.

1882 Athenæum 7 Jan. 27/3 A reshaping of a comedietta of Haynes Bayly.

1897 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin xiii. iii Not even the reshaping power of memory would suffice to appease my longing.

1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization iii. 89 This has been particularly marked with the coming of industrialism, foreshadowing the destruction or radical re-shaping of their social structure.

1969 Gloss. Landscape Work (B.S.I.) v. 30 Reshaping, a pruning operation directed to improving the shape of a tree.

1991 San Francisco Chron. 26 July a23/1 Community leaders..blasted the reshaping of the city's nine police districts.

2008 T. A. Hutton New Econ. Inner City iii. 41 References include the Oltrarno artisanal district..in Florence, and the Ancient Quarter of Hanoi, each of which exemplifies resilience over the course of history's upheavals, as well as the reshaping power of globalization processes.