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

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 Stock, St. George William Joseph

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 Jonson, Ben

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

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

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

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