unvalued
English
Adjective
unvalued (not comparable)
- Not having been valued or appraised.
- an unvalued estate
- Not considered to be of worth; deemed valueless.
- c. 1601, Shakespeare, Hamlet, I, iii
- For he himself is subject to his birth; / He may not, as unvalued persons do, / Carve for himself, for on his choice depends / The safety and health of this whole state, / And therefore must his choice be circumscribed / Unto the voice and yielding of that body / Whereof he is the head.
- c. 1601, Shakespeare, Hamlet, I, iii
- (obsolete) Having inestimable value; invaluable.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii:
- Madam, whatſoeuer you eſteeme
Of this ſucceſſe, and loſſe vnualued,
Both may inueſt you Empreſſe of the Eaſt: […]
- 1595, Amoretti or Sonnets, Edmund Spenser
- 'Mongst which, there in a silver dish did lie Two golden apples of unvalued price; Far passing those which Hercules came by, Or those which Atalanta did entice.
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Translations
not having been valued/appraised
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