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

Example Sentences

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disvalue disvaluing

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

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

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 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

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

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 Croce, Benedetto

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 Barrow, Isaac