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Definition of Disvalue
1. v. t. To undervalue; to depreciate.
2. n. Disesteem; disregard.
Definition of Disvalue
1. Verb. To regard something as having little or no value ¹
2. Noun. harm, demerit ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disvalue
1. to treat as of little value [v -UED, -UING, -UES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disvalue
Literary usage of Disvalue
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bisocialism: The Reign of the Man at the Margin by Oliver R. Trowbridge (1903)
"We shall call disutility to the seller, or the negation of value, disvalue; and
the positive value which lies between the point of positive utility and the ..."
2. Bisocialism: The Reign of the Man at the Margin by Oliver R. Trowbridge (1903)
"We shall call disutility to the seller, or the negation of value, disvalue; and
the positive value which lies between the point of positive utility and the ..."
3. Stoicism by St. George William Joseph Stock (1908)
"All things that were in accordance with nature had ' value,' and all things that
were contrary to nature had what we must call' disvalue. ..."
4. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"Disgrace ; diminution of reputation. To disvalue, (diz-val'-u) ». a. To undervalue.
disvalue, (diz-val'-u) ns Disregard ; DISTURBER, ..."
5. Participatory Development: Learning from South Asia by Ponna Wignaraja (1991)
"The negation, thus, of the possibility to 'become' would constitute the core
disvalue at the human level. This negative experience often gets described at ..."
6. The Biological Foundations of Belief by Wesley Raymond Wells (1921)
"Beliefs may be true or false; they may also have value or disvalue. In most cases,
probably, true beliefs are valuable, and false beliefs have disvalue, ..."
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