Disvalue

noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    harm, demerit
Verb
  1. 1
    To regard something as having little or no value.
  2. 2
    To undervalue; to depreciate.

    "[…] five years since there was some speech of marriage Betwixt myself and her; which was broke off, Partly for that her promised proportions Came short of composition, but in chief For that her reputation was disvalued In levity […]"

Example

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"[…] five years since there was some speech of marriage Betwixt myself and her; which was broke off, Partly for that her promised proportions Came short of composition, but in chief For that her reputation was disvalued In levity […]"

Etymology

From dis- + value.

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