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unˈvalued, ppl. a.
[un-1 8, 5 b.]
1. Not estimated or fixed in value; extremely great or valuable. Now rare.
1586Marlowe 1st Pt. Tamburl. i. ii, Whatsoeuer you esteeme of this successe, and losse vnvallued, Both may inuest you Empresse of the East. 1594Spenser Amoretti lxxvii, There in a siluer dish did ly twoo golden apples of vnualewd price. 1607Middleton Fam. Lov. i. ii, Art or nature never yet could set A valued price to her unvalued worth. 1638C. Aleyn Hen. VII, 73 He..drew him clad In furniture of an unvalued worth. 1662H. Hibbert Body of Divinity II. 30 The saving benefits of his unvalued passion. 1713Johnson Guard. No. 4 ⁋3, I have been so happy in my searches..that I have found unvalued repositories of learning. 1736Thomson Liberty v. 503 The kind Art, that, of unvalu'd price, The fam'd and only picture, easy, gives. 1820Shelley Arethusa 60 Through the weltering floods, Over heaps of unvalued stones [= jewels].
b. Not subjected to formal valuation.
1807Ann. Rev. V. 176 If real property, instead of passing entire and unvalued to the heir at law, were put up to the highest bidder.
2. Not regarded as of value.
1602Shakes. Ham. i. iii. 19 Hee may not, as vnuallued persons doe, Carue for himselfe. 1615G. Wither Fidelia 707 Though my faith must now despised be, Vnpriz'd, vn⁓ualued at the lowest rate. 1670Clarendon Contempl. Ps. Tracts (1727) 740 The inestimable, tho' unvalued benefit of health, we seldom thank God for. 1823Mrs. Hemans Siege Valencia viii, I have cast Thy life's fair honour, in my wild despair, As an unvalued gem upon the waves. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xxxv, A hard-tempered sire, on whom that gentle woman had wasted a world of unvalued love. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 203 Recalling and confirming our own unvalued sensations and perceptions. |