1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xxii. 42 By thus ouervaluing their sermons, they make the price and estimation of scripture..to fall.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. x. 44 If he resolve not, he overvalues little things, which is Pusillanimity.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 272. ⁋1 [She] so over-valued her self and under-rated all her Pretenders.

1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings II. v. i. 109 They afford a lesson to the modern metaphysical and recondite writers not to overvalue their works.

a1809 H. Cowley Green Coat & Brown Coat in Wks. (1813) III. 353 Your feelings overvalue those acts of Duty which I have been fortunate enough to find an opportunity of performing.

1876 G. Grote Fragm. Ethical Subj. vi. 230 Aristotle never overvalues the advantages of riches.

1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim ii. 10 He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference.

1959 R. Graves Coll. Poems 309 Or do I always over-value woman At the expense of man?

1988 A. Lurie Truth about Lorin Jones ix. 161 Jeanne always overvalued objects; she could go into raptures over some battered mirror frame.

1603 G. de Malynes Englands View 156 For if you make your returne by exchange of money by bils, he taketh an aduantage thereby in the price of exchange, by ouer-valuing his money, and under-valuing yours.

1680 J. Bunyan Life & Death Mr. Badman 251 Wherefore else are comodities over-valued by the Seller, and also undervalued by the Buyer.

1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 98 60/. in Linnen, which I made him believe I had been oblig'd to take with the 100/. which I gave him in Gold, as a Composition for a Debt of 600/. being little more than Five Shilling in the Pound, and overvalued too.

1822 C. M. Sedgwick Mary Hollis 11 As selfishness is too apt to make us overvalue our own possessions, her bargains were not always strictly just.

1885 Law Times 7 Feb. 269/1 There was a strong reason why Mr. Thomas should over-value rather than under-value the goods.

1929 Accounting Rev. 4 100/1 The accountant, who adheres to the orthodox rules of valuation, is in the embarrassing position of overvaluing fixed assets purchased at the time of a higher price level.

1977 ‘R. Lewis’ Nothing but Foxes vi. 117 ‘Both worked to the same principle—overvaluation.’ ‘You mean that Hart overvalued property?’

1992 Times 12 Sept. 8/3 The lira is widely thought to be overvalued by some 25 per cent but any devaluation would probably only be by between 10 and 15 per cent.