transvaluation

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Etymology[edit]

From trans- +‎ valuation.

Noun[edit]

transvaluation (plural transvaluations)

  1. A change of values; a revaluation.
    • 1918, Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist, trans. H. L. Mencken
      Let us not under-estimate this fact: that we ourselves, we free spirits, are already a “transvaluation of all values,” a visualized declaration of war and victory against all the old concepts of “true” and “not true.”
    • 1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 118:
      A similar transvaluation took place with the myth of Antichrist.

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