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unvalued

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Etymology

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    From un- + valued.

    Adjective

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    unvalued (not comparable)

    1. Not having been valued or appraised.
      an unvalued estate
    2. 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.
    3. (obsolete) Having inestimable value; invaluable.
      • c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. [] The First Part [], 2nd edition, part 1, London: [] [R. Robinson for] 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.

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