disvalue

[ dis-val-yoo ]

noun

1. disesteem; disparagement.

verb (used with object)

, dis·val·ued, dis·val·u·ing.

1. Archaic. to depreciate; disparage.

Word History and Origins

Origin of disvalue¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; dis- ¹ + value

Example Sentences

Ladies.Be it so, And if our levity disvalue vows, Or what may most oblige us: may like censure Impeach our perish'd honours.

From Project Gutenberg

Various meanings of the word sentiment—Sentiment as activity— Identification of sentiment with economic activity—Critique of hedonism—Sentiment as concomitant of every form of activity—Meaning of certain ordinary distinctions of sentiments—Value and disvalue: the contraries and their union—The beautiful as the value of expression, or expression without adjunct—The ugly and the elements of beauty that constitute it—Illusion that there exist expressions neither beautiful nor ugly—Proper aesthetic sentiments and concomitant and accidental sentiments—Critique of apparent sentiments.

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Absence of value is not sufficient to cause disvalue, but activity and passivity must be struggling between themselves, without the one getting the better of the other; hence the contradiction, and the disvalue of the activity that is embarrassed, contested, or interrupted.

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The disvalue would become nonvalue; activity would give place to passivity, with which it is not at war, save when there effectively is war.

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If each of these is a value, each has opposed to it antivalue or disvalue.

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