valure

English

Etymology

From Middle English valure, from Old French valeur, valur, from Latin valor, reshaped as if suffixed with -ure. Doublet of valour.

Noun

valure (countable and uncountable, plural valures)

1. (obsolete) Value.
   • a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:

     honored by great valure, made of inestimable valure

References

• “valure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Lauver, r-value, rvalue, valuer