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English
Etymology
From dis- + value.
Verb
disvalue (third-person singular simple present disvalues, present participle disvaluing, simple past and past participle disvalued)
- To regard something as having little or no value.
- 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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :[…] 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
- harm, demerit