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disvalue

American  
[dis-val-yoo] / dɪsˈvæl yu /

noun

  1. disesteem; disparagement.


verb (used with object)

disvalued, disvaluing
  1. Archaic.  to depreciate; disparage.

Etymology

Origin of disvalue

First recorded in 1595–1605; dis- 1 + value

Example Sentences

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Ladies.Be it so, And if our levity disvalue vows, Or what may most oblige us: may like censure Impeach our perish'd honours.

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The process is external to the aesthetic fact In this case also; for the only feeling linked with that is the feeling of aesthetic value and disvalue, of the beautiful and of the ugly.

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Value is activity that unfolds itself freely: disvalue is its contrary.

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If each of these is a value, each has opposed to it antivalue or disvalue.

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Absence of value is not sufficient to cause disvalue, but activity and passivity must be struggling between themselves, without the one getting the better of the other; hence the contradiction, and the disvalue of the activity that is embarrassed, contested, or interrupted.

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