disvalue

English

Etymology

From 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
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