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English
Etymology
From un- + valued.
Adjective
unvalued (not comparable)
- Not having been valued or appraised.
an unvalued estate
- Not considered to be of worth; deemed valueless.
- c. 1601, Shakespeare, Hamlet, I, iii
- For he himself is subject to his birth; / He may not, as unvalued persons do, / Carve for himself, for on his choice depends / The safety and health of this whole state, / And therefore must his choice be circumscribed / Unto the voice and yielding of that body / Whereof he is the head.
- (obsolete) Having inestimable value; invaluable.
c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:Madam, whatſoeuer you eſteeme
Of this ſucceſſe, and loſſe vnualued,
Both may inueſt you Empreſſe of the Eaſt: […]
- 1595, Edmund Spenser, “Sonnet LXXVII” in Amoretti or Sonnets:
- Mongst which there in a siluer dish did ly / twoo golden apples of vnualewd price: / far passing those which Hercules came by, / or those which Atalanta did entice.
Translations
not having been valued/appraised