单词 | valor |
释义 | valorn. a. The amount in money, etc., that a thing is worth; = value n. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > [noun] wortheOE valuea1325 cost1340 valourc1350 valure1440 valora1483 valoir1496 valor1496 valuation1549 valent1765 vallidom1790 money value1848 money-worth1854 1496–7 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 127 If hir ladyship wold send by him a token to my master, yt shall avale hir another of xx tymes the valor. 1526 Linc. Wills (1914) I. 179 Yerely spendyng the valore off the sayd v Roode [of land] att my forsayd yereday. 1566 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure I. xxx. f. 60v A verie beautifull rynge, of greate price and estimacion: which for the valor and beautie, he was verie desirous perpetuallie, to leaue vnto his successours. 1583 Sir T. Smith's De Republica Anglorum ii. xxiii. 78 Thou hast stolen with force and armes an horse..to such a valor. 1676 E. Coles Eng. Dict. Valor of Marriage. [See valour n. 3d.] ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > [adjective] > of specified value wortheOE worthy1387 of value1395 of (great, little, etc.) valoura1450 of (great, etc.) valor1467 valiant1590 1467 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 174 Ȝe have..a lytel stoffe of myne for my howesold wesche [= which] is of no grete valor. 1545 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Court of Requests (1898) 84 What valor they were of this deponent knoweth nott. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > [noun] wortheOE valuea1325 cost1340 valourc1350 valure1440 valora1483 valoir1496 valor1496 valuation1549 valent1765 vallidom1790 money value1848 money-worth1854 society > trade and finance > monetary value > [noun] > equivalent of a specific sum worthOE valora1483 a1483 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 313 Every person..that ys of the waylore of xx. li. of goodes, and aboffe. a1483 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 314 Euery seruant..that takyt wagys to the waylor of xx. s. and a-boffe. 1542 in J. W. Clay Testamenta Eboracensia (1902) VI. 156 The yerlie valor of xl s. a1548 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. II. 65 A Prebend in York..of the yerly valor of xliiij. marks. 1602 Shetland Law Rep. in Scotsman (1886) 29 Jan. 7/1 Gif he beis apprehendit with the walor of an uristhift. d. Christian Church. An assessment-value set upon Church property; a list of these values. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > [noun] > value of land or property > assessment or rateable value valor1800 rateable value1819 1800 D. Lysons Hist. Acct. Parishes Middlesex 245 In the old valors this rectory was rated at 70 marks. 1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiv. i. 371 The Valor of Pope Nicolas was framed by those who wished..to..lighten their taxation. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > worth > [noun] > of thing worshipa1200 worth1340 value1379 valuec1380 emprisea1393 worthinessa1398 valure1470 valor1579 1579 T. Lodge Protogenes 17 All your obiections you make agaynst poetrye be of no valor. 1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 103 Why! but because it hath not God to put a valor on it. b. Power, import, significance. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > [noun] signifiancec1275 wita1340 understanding1340 significancea1400 interpretationc1400 sentence1402 signification?a1425 comprehensec1470 knowledging1532 meaning1600 conceit1607 significancy1618 signality1646 significativeness1652 valor1676 amount1678 significature1822 1676 J. Collins Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) II. 12 I have set down two valors of x to every equation. 1691 J. Ray Acct. Errors in Coll. Eng. Words Now I come to shew that our alphabet is faulty as to the powers or valors attributed to some letters. 1808 J. Jebb Corr. (1834) I. 469 If I may make an English word to express the valor of the Greek word. 3. Courage, bravery; = valour n. 1c. Now chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > valour > [noun] earlshipOE prowessc1325 pruancec1330 valiantisec1330 wightshipc1330 valure?a1350 wightness1377 orpednessa1398 orpedshipc1400 valiantness1470 valiance1475 fierceness1490 priceheadc1540 valiancy1574 valor1586 valencea1604 valeur1646 valorousness1727 1586 E. Hoby tr. M. Coignet Polit. Disc. Trueth xi. 36 They haue so often beene subdued by the valor of the French. 1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. Eii Our courage are new borne our vallors bred. 1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland Pref. Where so much passive valor is necessary we may dispense with the want of active. 1757 W. Wilkie Epigoniad Pref. p. xli Besides, I must have transferred, to Sthenelus, the valor, firmness, and address of Ulysses. 1782 A. Highmore Ramble Coast Sussex (1873) 19 In the days of chivalry, when the soul of valor animated every thought. 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. at Worthy A man of valor. 1874 G. Bancroft Footpr. of Time i The period of rude and restless valor among the Greeks. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > see alsoalso refers to : valourvalorn. < n.1467 see also |
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