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单词 countervalue
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countervaluen.

Etymology: compare countervalue v. and French contre-valeur.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcounterˌvalue.
Equivalent value spec. applied to strategy based on the attacking of civilian targets.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > [noun]
comparison1340
evennessa1398
evenhead?a1400
equipollencec1430
pareil?c1450
equalityc1460
comparation1483
egalness1526
equalness1530
equivalency1535
eveningc1540
equivalencea1542
indifferency1569
owelty1579
coequality1583
mateship1593
equal1596
adequation1605
parity1609
parility1610
matchableness1611
equipollency1623
equiparance1624
egality1628
equipage1633
comparitya1635
omniparity1635
peership1641
exequation1656
equipoise1658
equipotency1658
countervalue1660
adequateness1664
commensurablenessa1676
peerage1681
égalité1794
peerdom1891
society > armed hostility > attack > [noun] > attack on civilian targets
countervalue1963
1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. v. 239 It is altogether fruitlesse, and not of countervalue with the troubles which follow it.
1963 Times 4 Feb. 9/4 The new nuclear strategy of unlimited but controlled retaliation with its alternatives of counterforce and countervalue (the euphemism for attacking cities).
1965 Economist 6 Feb. 578/3 The counter-values of these [foreign currency reserves] have been credited to the exporters in DM.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

countervaluev.

Forms: Also 1600s contre-.
Etymology: counter- prefix 1 + value v.: compare the earlier countervail.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To equal or counterbalance in value; = countervail v. 1.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > be equivalent to
quitc1375
countervailc1380
containa1387
value1561
to go for ——1574
countervalue1581
weigh1583
avail1598
reanswer1598
commeasure1615
imply1634
equivalence1646
equivale1659
1581 Compendious Exam. Certayne Ordinary Complaints i. f. 4v We haue nothing to sell..to counterualue those things that we must buy againe.
1605 T. Hutton Reasons for Refusal 133 Whose vse and doctrine countervalue not their doubts & vncertaine opinions.
1656 H. Phillippes Purchasers Pattern (ed. 3) B vj b The Rent remaining will counter-value the Ground-Rent.
2. intransitive. Of an accused person: To give a counter-estimate. Cf. counter-penalty n.
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1832 Sir G. C. Lewis in Philol. Museum 1 132 The defendant was then allowed to make a lower assessment of the fine or other penalty, to counter-value, as it was called (ἀντιτιμᾶσθαι or ὑποτιμᾶσθαι.)
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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