Antonyms for fashioning

Grammar : Verb

Spell : fash-uhn

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfæʃ ən

Definition of fashioning

Origin : c.1300, "shape, manner, mode," from Old French façon (12c.) "face, appearance; construction, pattern, design; thing done; beauty; manner, characteristic feature," from Latin factionem (nominative factio) "group of people acting together," literally "a making or doing," from facere "to make" (see factitious).
Sense of "prevailing custom" is from late 15c.; that of "style of attire" is from 1520s.
To call a fashion wearable is the kiss of death. No new fashion worth its salt is wearable. [Eugenia Sheppard, "New York Herald Tribune," Jan. 13, 1960]
Fashion plate (1851) originally was "full-page picture in a popular magazine showing the prevailing or latest style of dress," in reference to the typographic "plate" from which it was printed. Transfered sense of "well-dressed person" had emerged by 1920s.

verb adjust, design, create

Example sentences :

These are the second causes which God used as his ministers in fashioning the world.
Extract from : « Timaeus » by Plato

Thus England was fashioning a new system and defining a new policy.
Extract from : « The Fathers of New England » by Charles M. Andrews

We are fashioning our life too much after the conduct of the children of Israel.
Extract from : « Sparkling Gems of Race Knowledge Worth Reading » by Various

I am, as it were, a creature of your own fashioning, and I owe to you that which I never can repay.
Extract from : « Japhet in Search of a Father » by Frederick Marryat

One half expects to see him fashioning a gorget or a sword on his anvil.
Extract from : « Children of the Tenements » by Jacob A. Riis

In other rooms workmen were fashioning the gold into various articles and ornaments.
Extract from : « Rinkitink in Oz » by L. Frank Baum

But while fashioning this agency, they fully recognized the governments of the States.
Extract from : « American Eloquence, Volume II. (of 4) » by Various

Here they remained for a day quarrying pipestone and fashioning pipes.
Extract from : « The Spirit Lake Massacre » by Thomas Teakle

But the tables and chairs and the corner cupboard were of his fashioning.
Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old Pittsburg » by Amanda M. Douglas

How many persons took part in its fashioning and its filling?
Extract from : « The Bible and Life » by Edwin Holt Hughes

Synonyms for fashioning

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