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disvalue

[ dis-val-yoo ]

noun

  1. disesteem; disparagement.


verb (used with object)

disvalued, disvaluing.
  1. Archaic. to depreciate; disparage.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of disvalue1

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

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

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

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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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Value is activity that unfolds itself freely: disvalue is its contrary.

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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.

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