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Definition of Transvalue
1. Verb. To represent or evaluate something according to a new principle, causing it to be revalued ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Transvalue
1. [v -VALUED, -VALUING, -VALUES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Transvalue
Literary usage of Transvalue
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Contributions to the Bacteriology of the Oyster by Woods Hutchinson, Hollis Godfrey, Rhode Island (State) Commissioners of shell-fisheries, Lester Angell Round (1914)
"They survey and transvalue everything with what Robert Louis Stevenson aptly
calls "the pitiless eye of youth." One great advantage of this modern method ..."
2. Social Change with Respect to Culture and Original Nature by William Fielding Ogburn (1922)
"... easier to transvalue an existing form than to invent a new one. It should be
observed that the difficulty of inventing, as a cause of cultural inertia, ..."
3. Overtones, a Book of Temperments: Richard Strauss, Parsifal, Verdi, Balzac by James Huneker (1904)
"... Nietzsche's cardinal doctrine, and this will to power is neither evil nor
good, for our Siegfried among philosophers would transvalue all moral values. ..."
4. Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys (1915)
"But one thing he could not smite; he could neither smite it, or unmask it,
or "transvalue" it. I mean the Earth itself— the great, shrewd, wise, ..."
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