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non-treasure en · NOUN

Etymology

From non- + treasure.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of nontreasure.
   alt of nontreasure
   • Several of our non-treasures had to be dismissed within days for intolerable personal filthiness (there was the celebrated case of the louse on the table-napkin. . .) or irredeemable incompetence, or both. 1979, Dervla Murphy, Wheels Within Wheels, page 90:
   • Even in the normative tradition of recent centuries, core treasure liturgies are enhanced by ritual texts composed by means of ordinary, non-treasure authorship and yet these become regarded as treasure as well. 2016, Daniel Hirshberg, Remembering the Lotus-Born:

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