transvalue
verb (used with object)
to reestimate the value of, especially on a basis differing from accepted standards; reappraise; reevaluate.
transvaluation
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a word derived from
transvalue.
Example Sentences
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It is his rigorous transvaluation of all moral values and conventionalities that proclaims this Hamlet a man of the future.
From Ivory Apes and Peacocks by James Huneker
I could only designate this dream displacement as the transvaluation of psychical values.
From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Sigmund Freud
In that transvaluation of old values effected by the intellectual revolution of the century, it was the fortune of America to emerge as a kind of concrete example of the imagined State of Nature.
From Beginnings of the American People by William E. Dodd
In dealing with Chopin no such transvaluation of values is necessary; the raw materials are ready for his uses without preparation; he is wholly at home among the black keys and white.
From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
The transvaluation of values was performed by many hands into all sorts of combinations.
From A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann
