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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The transvaluation of values that is now in progress will go on slowly and for a very long while.
From In Defense of Women by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
The issue cannot be dodged by a denial of its existence; the mere act of explanation involves some process, whether deliberate or unconscious, of translation and transvaluation.
From The Political Doctrines of Sun Yat-sen: An Exposition of the San Min Chu I by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
In either case we need a new transvaluation of morals.
From Unicorns by James Huneker
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
Already they are working at the transvaluation of all feeling in the European sense.
From ?mile Verhaeren by Stefan Zweig
