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Definition of Overvalues
1. overvalue [v] - See also: overvalue
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overvalues
Literary usage of Overvalues
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1900)
"Does his choice indicate that he overvalues appearances ? Of what two subjects
is Arragon (Act II, sc. ix) chiefly thinking? Does his choice indicate that ..."
2. The Unrest of Women by Edward Sandford Martin (1913)
"The fault, as I see it, that is to be found with her kind of unrest is that it
overvalues independence for women, overvalues the wage-earning, ..."
3. The Winston Simplified Dictionary: Including All the Words in Common Use by William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer (1919)
"... the habit of mind that overvalues, and is vain of possessing, trifling details
of learning. nor) rUa (pSd'l). rf to travel about selling ueu-iue sman ..."
4. Leviathan ; Or, The Matter, Forme & Power of a Commonwealth, Ecclesiasticall by Thomas Hobbes, Alfred Rayney Waller (1904)
"... and resolves not, the difference of weight is but little; and therefore if he
resolve not, he overvalues little things, which is Pusillanimity. ..."
5. The Works of George Bull: D. D., Lord Bishop of St. David's by George Bull, Edward Burton, Robert Nelson (1827)
"... whom it commonly signifies that vice whereby a man is too fond of himself,
and arrogates to himself more worth than indeed he hath, overvalues himself. ..."
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