disvalue

American  

[dis-val-yoo] / dɪsˈvæl yu /

noun

1. disesteem; disparagement.

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verb (used with object)

disvalued, disvaluing

1. Archaic. to depreciate; disparage.

Etymology

Origin of disvalue

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 A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert

Nor is't the time alone is here disprised, But the whole man of time, yea, Caesar's self Brought in disvalue; and he aimed at most, By oblique glance of his licentious pen.

From Sejanus: His Fall by Jonson, Ben

We will content ourselves with this definition of the two terms, without entering into the problem of the relation between value and disvalue, that is, between the problem of contraries.

From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto

But still there might be assigned to them what Antipater expressed by the term 'a selective value' or what he expressed by its barbarous privative, 'a disselective disvalue'.

From Guide to Stoicism by Stock, St. George William Joseph

Things that possessed a high degree of value were called preferred, those that possessed a high degree of disvalue were called rejected.

From Guide to Stoicism by Stock, St. George William Joseph