disvaluation

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noun

devaluation

Scrabble 16

Meanings

noundisvaluation (countable and uncountable, plural disvaluations)

plural disvaluations

  1. countableuncountabledevaluation

    For what can be more strange , or more to the disvaluation of the power of the Spaniard upon the continent , than that with an army of eleven thousand English landsoldiers , and a fleet of twenty - six ships of war , besides some weak vessels[…]

    a. 1627 (date written), Francis [Bacon], “Considerations Touching a Warre with Spaine. […]”, in William Rawley, editor, Certaine Miscellany Works of the Right Honourable Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount S. Alban. […], London: […] I. Hauiland for Humphrey Robinson, […], published 1629, →OCLC

Origin

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APA

disvaluation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disvaluation

MLA

“disvaluation.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disvaluation. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “disvaluation,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/disvaluation.

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