valure
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English valure, from Old French valeur, valur, from Latin valor, reshaped as if suffixed with -ure. Doublet of valour.
Noun edit
valure (countable and uncountable, plural valures)
- (obsolete) Value.
- a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, →OCLC:
- honored by great valure, made of inestimable valure
References edit
- “valure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.