disvalue

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ value

Verb

disvalue (third-person singular simple present disvalues, present participle disvaluing, simple past and past participle disvalued)

1. To regard something as having little or no value.
2. To undervalue; to depreciate.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     […] 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 […]

Noun

disvalue

1. harm, demerit

Related terms

• disvaluable