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The prohibition on polygamy was tirelessly interrogated, but no one seemed very keen to advocate polyandry, which raised questions about the inheritance of property that would have remodelled society to a much too revolutionary degree.

From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2012

They contain lines which he would doubtless have remodelled had he lived to review them in tranquillity — perhaps one or two pieces, sprung from a momentary mood, which, on reflection he would have rejected.*

From Poems by Seeger, Alan

They have remodelled their domestic economy, accommodating it to their smaller incomes and to the uncertainty of household help.

From The Brothers' War by Reed, John Calvin

Accordingly, I have remodelled the plot, threw out many unnecessary persons, improved those which were begun and left unfinished, as Hector, Troilus, Pandarus, and Thersites, and added that of Andromache.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various

You have remodelled the divine service of the Jewish synagogue, superadding elements of devotion and sacredness.

From Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Karpeles, Gustav