Dictionary

valorize en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈvæləˌraɪz/ (US)

Etymology

Back-formation from valorization.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To assess (something) as being valuable or admirable.
   • Creating a historical dictionary for a variety of English valorises that variety by linking it to national history and national identity. 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 115:
   • You can see it in the way we valorize the C.E.O.s of “unicorn” companies who have expanded their wealth far beyond what could possibly be justified by their individual contributions. 2023 October 28, Elizabeth Spiers, “A Tech Overlord’s Horrifying, Silly Vision for Who Should Rule the World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
   • […]noting his tendency “to valorise my father and, I'm afraid, to demonise her because of some of the tendencies she had: she was very harsh. That was a faint undertone to my 'idyllic' childhood, I suppose.” 2001 May 12, Robert Potts, quoting Paul Muldoon, “The poet at play”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
2. (transitive) To fix the price of (something) at an artificially high level, usually by government action.

Forms

Deriveds

devalorize · valorization · revalorize · valorizable