transvalue

American  

[trans-val-yoo, tranz-] / trænsˈvæl ju, trænz- /

verb (used with object)

transvalued, transvaluing

1. to reestimate the value of, especially on a basis differing from accepted standards; reappraise; reevaluate.

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transvalue British  

/ trænzˈvæljuː /

verb

1. (tr) to evaluate by a principle that varies from the accepted standards

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Other Word Forms

• transvaluation
  noun
• transvaluer
  noun

Etymology

Origin of transvalue

First recorded in 1905–10; trans- + value

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

transvalue transvalued transvaluing

But one thing he could not smite; he could neither smite it, or unmask it, or "transvalue" it.

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper

Consequently, the systems of tradition begin as attempts to transvalue social situations whose existence456 is troublesome and end as utterances of which the specific bearing, save to the system of an opponent, is undiscoverable.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

Freud’s answer, that we find our limits only when we recognise just how badly we need them, was insufficient, and its transvalued version even more so.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2018

By the time I got to therapy school in the mid-1980s, Freud’s interior landscape had been transvalued, the source no longer of trouble, but of wisdom.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2018

And I make the confident forecast that all those ideas will have to be transvalued in the light of the present catastrophe.

From German Problems and Personalities by Saroléa, Charles

Does a Nietzsche drive himself into madness transvaluing all the moral values, some nimbled-witted George Creel will reduce his works to a cheap credo for footpads.

From Time Magazine Archive

His peculiar craftiness consisted in transvaluing his weakness into virtues.—

From The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

And sitting there on the stringer-piece in my shame, I did a great deal of thinking and transvaluing of values.

From John Barleycorn by London, Jack