transvalue

transvalue [trans-val-yoo, tranz-] ExamplesWord Origin verb (used with object), trans·val·ued, trans·val·u·ing.

1. to reestimate the value of, especially on a basis differing from accepted standards; reappraise; reevaluate.

Origin of transvalue First recorded in 1905–10; trans- + value Related formstrans·val·u·a·tion, noun Examples from the Web for transvaluation Historical Examples of transvaluation

If he implies anything at all he implies a “transvaluation of all values.”

The World of H.G. Wells

Van Wyck Brooks

The transvaluation of critical values must follow in the trail of revolutions.

Ivory Apes and Peacocks

James Huneker

Already they are working at the transvaluation of all feeling in the European sense.

mile Verhaeren

Stefan Zweig

It is the motto of this movement to effect a transvaluation of sthetic values in style and stagecraft.

Modernities

Horace Barnett Samuel

The creator of the Duchesse de Sanseverina had caught more than a glimpse of the transvaluation of all values.

Books and Characters

Lytton Strachey

British Dictionary definitions for transvaluation transvalue verb -ues, -uing or -ued

1. (tr) to evaluate by a principle that varies from the accepted standards

Derived Formstransvaluation, nountransvaluer, noun