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单词 valor
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valorn.

Brit. /ˈvalə/, U.S. /ˈvælər/
Forms: Also Middle English waylor(e, 1500s–1600s vallor, 1500s valore, 1600s Scottish walor.
Etymology: variant of valour n. by assimilation to, or direct adoption of, medieval Latin valor.
1.
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.]
in extended use.c1560 A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xxvii. 26 Will scho absent, Hyne sall I went, And at als littill valor set hir.
b. In the phrase of (great, etc.) valor. Obsolete.
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.
c. The monetary value of (a specified sum).
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.
a. Intrinsic worth or merit; = value n. 6.
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.
in combination.1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xxvi. 127 Immaculate manliness..bleeds with keenest anguish at the undraped spectacle of a valor-ruined man.
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