transvalue
English edit
Etymology edit
Back-formation from transvaluation.
Verb edit
transvalue (third-person singular simple present transvalues, present participle transvaluing, simple past and past participle transvalued)
- To represent or evaluate something according to a new principle, causing it to be revalued.
- 1995, Robert Alter, “Forward”, in Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, →ISBN, page xxi:
- One of the attractions of the whole panorama of Jewish mysticism for Scholem is its vivid and manifold demonstration of how it is possible to maintain a historical identity and a certain sense of continuity of belief while vigorously transvaluing values, redefining world and self and the realm of the spirit as historical circumstances change.