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transvalue en · VERB

Etymology

Back-formation from transvaluation.

Meanings

1. To represent or evaluate something according to a new principle, causing it to be revalued.
   • One of the attractions of the whole panorama of Jewish mysticism for Scholem is its vivid and manifold demonstration of how it is possible to maintain a historical identity and a certain sense of continuity of belief while vigorously transvaluing values, redefining world and self and the realm of the spirit as historical circumstances change. 1995, Robert Alter, “Forward”, in Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, →ISBN, page xxi:

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