disvaluation

English

Etymology

Noun

disvaluation (countable and uncountable, plural disvaluations)

disesteem; depreciation; disrepute
- a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a VVarre vvith Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany VVorks of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC:
  For what can be more strange , or more to the disvaluation of the power of the Spaniard upon the continent , than that with an army of eleven thousand English landsoldiers , and a fleet of twenty - six ships of war , besides some weak vessels […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “disvaluation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)