disvalue
Americannoun
verb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of disvalue
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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.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley
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
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
Value is activity that unfolds itself freely: disvalue is its contrary.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce
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
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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