misvalue

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From mis- +‎ value.

Verb[edit]

misvalue (third-person singular simple present misvalues, present participle misvaluing, simple past and past participle misvalued)

  1. (transitive) To value wrongly: to misjudge the value of.
    • 1994, Sheldon Saul Richmond, Aesthetic Criteria: Gombrich and the Philosophies of Science of Popper and Polanyi[1], Rodopi, →ISBN, page 59:
      Gombrich generalizes his argument: all norms of progress misvalue art by over-rating their own achievement, under-rating other styles, and by viewing previous styles as precursors to their own work.