devalorise

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ valorise.

Verb

devalorise (third-person singular simple present devalorises, present participle devalorising, simple past and past participle devalorised)

1. Alternative form of devalorize
   • 2002, Floya Anthias, Cathie Lloyd, Rethinking Anti-racisms: From Theory to Practice, →ISBN, page 9:

     As Floya Anthias argues in her chapter, there is a need to fight against all those constructions of difference and identity that exclude and devalorise, and against all those social practices that construct identities and differences in naturalised, collectivised and binary ways and in terms of hierarchical otherness, unequal resource allocation and modes of inferiorisation (see also Anthias 1998a).

   • 2002, Bogusława Lachowska, Mariola Laguna, Draw-a-Family Test in Psychological Research, →ISBN, page 62:

     However, they may valorise or devalorise themselves in the drawing (Braun-Galkowska 1991).

   • 2016, John Grumley, History and Totality: Radical Historicism From Hegel to Foucault, →ISBN:

     This interest centres on commercial disequalibriums which devalorise capital and endanger the traditional living standards of workers.

Anagrams

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