disvalue

American  

[dis-val-yoo] / dɪsˈvæl ju /

noun

1. disesteem; disparagement.

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verb (used with object)

disvalued, disvaluing

1. Archaic. to depreciate; disparage.

Etymology

Origin of disvalue

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

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Example Sentences

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disvalue disvaluing

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

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley

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

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce

We will content ourselves with this definition of the two terms, without entering into the problem of the relation between value and disvalue, that is, between the problem of contraries.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce

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

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce

Nor is't the time alone is here disprised, But the whole man of time, yea, Caesar's self Brought in disvalue; and he aimed at most, By oblique glance of his licentious pen.

From Sejanus: His Fall by Ben Jonson

For our neighbour’s reputation is too great and precious a thing to be played with, or offered up to sport; we are very foolish in so disvaluing it, very naughty in so misusing it. 

From Sermons on Evil-Speaking by Isaac Barrow

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