| 单词 | of great valure |
| 释义 | > as lemmasof great (also little, etc.) valure 2. Material or monetary worth; = value n. 1. Frequently in of great (also little, etc.) valure. An attempt was made by the American senator Dana J. Tinnes (d. 1933) to reintroduce the word in a specific sense (see quot. 1918), but this never achieved any currency. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > monetary value > [noun] wortheOE valuea1325 cost1340 valourc1350 valure1440 valora1483 valoir1496 valor1496 valuation1549 valent1765 vallidom1790 money value1848 money-worth1854 Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 187 Garment of grete valure [?a1475 Winch. valu], mutatorium. 1453–4 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Mar. 1453 §71. m. 2 Decreas of the pris and valure of the wolles. 1491–2 in H. J. F. Swayne Churchwardens' Accts. Sarum (1896) 41 Smalle peces of clene golde of litelle valure. 1523 Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII c. 2 [They] shall..put to such markes to every of the same wares..upon payne of forfeyture the double valure of the same wares. 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Bvj Hys horse is iudged to be of such valure if you respect ye price, as is one of our cities. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 387 Swearing vnto him that he woulde prouyde other for him, that should amount to as good a valure. 1588 H. Oldcastle & J. Mellis Briefe Instr. Accompts sig. Ej Putting the valure of them, how much they be, after the common price in ready money. 1602 tr. G. Corrozet Memorable Conceits 46 The traitors being aggrieued that the presents which the King had sent them were of so small valure: They complained vnto him. 1617 in European Mag. & London Rev. June (1792) 422 The whol valure was 15l. 1918 D. J. Tinnes in Amer. Econ. Rev. 8 585 The word ‘value’..is more or less confusing... A better suggestion would be the now obsolete word ‘valure’. The meaning of this term would be somewhat altered and its use sharply limited to this thought of general exchange value. < as lemmas |
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