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disvalue

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

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


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Things that possessed a high degree of value were called preferred, those that possessed a high degree of disvalue were called rejected.

From Guide to Stoicism by St. George William Joseph Stock

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

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 Benedetto Croce

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

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

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

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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