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 phenomena will not have been considered in all its bearings unless I add that this displacement or transvaluation is shared by different dreams in extremely varying degrees.
From Dream Psychology Psychoanalysis for Beginners by Sigmund Freud
Further, he had to secure that men should begin the rethinking of all life—personal, social, and national—from the very foundations, on new lines—what is called a transvaluation of all values.
From The Jesus of History by T. R. Glover
Here then was a medium which was the other side of good and evil, a new transvaluation of morals, as Nietzsche would say.
From Chopin : the Man and His Music 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 its maturest form, it is a transvaluation of all values in accordance with an absolute ideal standard—that of the Good, the True, and the Beautiful.
From Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge
