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unˈvaluable, a.
[un-1 7 b, 5 b.]
†1. Of inestimable value; = invaluable a. 1. Obs. (Common in 17th c.)
1569T. Norton Warning agst. Papists A ij, Thinke vpon the..miseries that we all shalbe like to susteine by losse of her vnualuable presence. 1591Horsey Trav. (Hakl. Soc.) 160 The riches..caried owt of these citties..was unvaluable. a1616Beaum. & Fl. Lit. Fr. Lawyer iii. i, That Jewel, Because it had no flaw, you held unvaluable. 1691W. Nicholls Answ. Naked Gospel 21 When he hath sent his only begotten Son..to purchase our Redemption by such an unvaluable price. 1691Ray Creation ii. (1692) 4 The use of our Hand, that unvaluable Instrument. 1712Lond. Gaz. No. 5037/6 The Blessings of Peace are unvaluable.
†b. Incalculable; = invaluable a. 1 b. Obs.
1638Rous Heav. Acad. 132 It is an unvaluable losse, that men doe so much divide the outward Teacher from the inward. a1661Fuller Worthies, Yorks. iii. (1662) 225 Debasing the Forraign estimation of our Cloth to the un⁓valuable damage of our Nation. a1683Oldham Rem. Wks. (1686) 6 Her Dowry..Which..we never gain But with un⁓valuable Cost.
2. Of no value, worthless; = invaluable a. 2. Now rare.
1615T. Adams England's Sickness 57 If nature..deny health, how vnualuable are their riches. a1674Clarendon Surv. Leviath. (1676) 55 To render those precious words unvaluable and of no signification. 1728R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 89 The unvaluable Deformities of Singleness and Novelty. 1766Museum Rust. VI. 15, I think the burnet so unvaluable, as to design to root it out of my ground. 1860Ruskin Unto this Last (1862) 118 In proportion as it leads away from life it is unvaluable or malignant.
Hence unˈvaluableness.
1665Dk. Ormonde in Earl Orrery St. Lett. (1742) 133 The cry was so great, upon the unvaluableness of the clothes given to the soldiery, that [etc.]. |