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▪ I. disvalue, v. Now rare. (Frequent in 17th c.)|dɪsˈvæljuː|
Also 7 -valewe,
[f. dis- 6 + value v.]
trans. To make or treat as of no value, depreciate, disparage. Hence disˈvaluing vbl. n.
1603Shakes. Meas. for M. v. i. 221 For that her reputation was dis-valued In leuitie. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xxiii. §31. 111 It is..necessary that vertue be not disualewed and imbased vnder the iust price. a1639W. Whately Prototypes i. iii. (1640) 12 It is an extreame disvaluing of Christ's righteousnesse, and underprizing of God's mercies in Christ. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch., Rich. II, cclxxxv, The King disvalued The Peer'age of the Kingdome. 1678Lively Orac. 243 The disvaluing of this Divine Book. a1876M. Collins in Pen Sketches (1879) II. 177 Perhaps his pen disvalueth Froude upon Elizabeth.
▪ II. disvalue, n.|dɪsˈvæljuː|
[f. prec. vb., after value n.]
†1. Depreciation, disparagement. Obs.
1603B. Jonson Sejanus iii. i, Nor is't the time alone is here disprised, But the whole man of the time, yea, Caesar's self Brought in disvalue. 1644Charge agst. Visct. Wilmott in R. Symonds Diary Civ. War (Camden) 108 A disvalew and contempte of his Majesties person. 1678Lively Orac. viii. §26. 315 There can scarce be a greater instance of contempt and disvalue.
2. Philos. Negative value. Hence disˈvaluable a., having negative value; bad, evil, or noxious.
1925C. D. Broad Mind & its Place xi. 504 Intrinsically good states..may have a great instrumental disvalue. 1929J. Laird Idea of Value p. xvi, In the technical usage of philosophy, economics, aesthetics and certain other such studies, ‘value’ is usually taken to mean both value and disvalue. It is therefore contrasted with non-value, or with that which is neither good nor bad. 1942Mind LI. 185 Having value sometimes means having positive as opposed to negative value, and sometimes means being either valuable or disvaluable. 1963J. N. Findlay Meinong's Theory (ed. 2) ix. 291 When things are given as actual or non-actual, we experience their values or disvalues by serious feelings and unserious desires. |