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Verb
over-value (third-person singular simple present over-values, present participle over-valuing, simple past and past participle over-valued)
- Alternative form of overvalue.
1889, Elia W[ilkinson] Peattie, “‘We Are Coming, Father Abraham.’ ”, in The Story of America: Containing the Romantic Incidents of History, from the Discovery of America to the Present Time, San Francisco, Calif., Chicago, Ill.: R. S. King Publishing Company, page 538:The people were more than prompt in their response, but they over-valued the raw troops which then swarmed to Washington. They believed that because the men felt like fighting, that they knew how to do it.
1989, Paul Hockings, “The Badagas”, in Paul Hockings, editor, Blue Mountains: The Ethnography and Biogeography of a South Indian Region, Delhi, Oxford, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 228:Indeed, an underlying theme in those legends is that Hette is an outstanding individual because she over-values certain ideals that those around her under-value: she over-values virginity, whereas her elder sister under-values it to the point of marrying (eloping?) a man other than the one her father had designated for her as a husband. Hette over-values marital fidelity, in direct contrast to the behaviour of her own husband. She over-values vegetarianism, in contrast with the meat-eating stepson, Batrabala.
1999, David Wykes, “A Legitimate Contribution to the War Effort: 1939–51”, in Evelyn Waugh: A Literary Life, Basingstoke, Hants., London: Macmillan Press Ltd; New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 155:Many people at the time of publication were so happy to believe that [Evelyn] Waugh had returned to his old ways with The Loved One that they over-valued the book. It is a fine comic novel with a truly Wavian subject, but no masterpiece.