disvalue

American  

[dis-val-yoo] / dɪsˈvæl yu /

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

Example Sentences

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.

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

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

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

The disvalue would become nonvalue; activity would give place to passivity, with which it is not at war, save when there effectively is war.

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

But still there might be assigned to them what Antipater expressed by the term 'a selective value' or what he expressed by its barbarous privative, 'a disselective disvalue'.

From Guide to Stoicism by Stock, St. George William Joseph

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 Dodsley, Robert