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Value   /vˈælju/   Listen
noun
Value  n.  
1.
The property or aggregate properties of a thing by which it is rendered useful or desirable, or the degree of such property or sum of properties; worth; excellence; utility; importance. "Ye are all physicians of no value." "Ye are of more value than many sparrows." "Caesar is well acquainted with your virtue, And therefore sets this value on your life." "Before events shall have decided on the value of the measures."
2.
(Trade & Polit. Econ.) Worth estimated by any standard of purchasing power, especially by the market price, or the amount of money agreed upon as an equivalent to the utility and cost of anything. "An article may be possessed of the highest degree of utility, or power to minister to our wants and enjoyments, and may be universally made use of, without possessing exchangeable value." "Value is the power to command commodities generally." "Value is the generic term which expresses power in exchange." "His design was not to pay him the value of his pictures, because they were above any price." Note: In political economy, value is often distinguished as intrinsic and exchangeable. Intrinsic value is the same as utility or adaptation to satisfy the desires or wants of men. Exchangeable value is that in an article or product which disposes individuals to give for it some quantity of labor, or some other article or product obtainable by labor; as, pure air has an intrinsic value, but generally not an exchangeable value.
3.
Precise signification; import; as, the value of a word; the value of a legal instrument
4.
Esteem; regard. "My relation to the person was so near, and my value for him so great"
5.
(Mus.) The relative length or duration of a tone or note, answering to quantity in prosody; thus, a quarter note has the value of two eighth notes.
6.
In an artistical composition, the character of any one part in its relation to other parts and to the whole; often used in the plural; as, the values are well given, or well maintained.
7.
Valor. (Written also valew) (Obs.)
8.
(a)
That property of a color by which it is distinguished as bright or dark; luminosity.
(b)
Degree of lightness as conditioned by the presence of white or pale color, or their opposites.
9.
(Math.) Any particular quantitative determination; as, a function's value for some special value of its argument.
10.
(pl.) The valuable ingredients to be obtained by treatment from any mass or compound; specif., the precious metals contained in rock, gravel, or the like; as, the vein carries good values; the values on the hanging walls.
Value received, a phrase usually employed in a bill of exchange or a promissory note, to denote that a consideration has been given for it.


verb
Value  v. t.  (past & past part. valued; pres. part. valuing)  
1.
To estimate the value, or worth, of; to rate at a certain price; to appraise; to reckon with respect to number, power, importance, etc. "The mind doth value every moment." "The queen is valued thirty thousand strong." "The king must take it ill, That he's so slightly valued in his messenger." "Neither of them valued their promises according to rules of honor or integrity."
2.
To rate highly; to have in high esteem; to hold in respect and estimation; to appreciate; to prize; as, to value one for his works or his virtues. "Which of the dukes he values most."
3.
To raise to estimation; to cause to have value, either real or apparent; to enhance in value. (Obs.) "Some value themselves to their country by jealousies of the crown."
4.
To be worth; to be equal to in value. (Obs.) "The peace between the French and us not values The cost that did conclude it."
Synonyms: To compute; rate; appraise; esteem; respect; regard; estimate; prize; appreciate.





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... of which Kidd was hanged for was murder, and ran thus: "Being moved and seduced by the instigations of the Devil he did make an assault in and upon William Moore upon the high seas with a certain wooden bucket, bound with iron hoops, of the value of eight pence, giving the said William Moore one mortal bruise of which the aforesaid William Moore did languish and die." This aforesaid William Moore was gunner in the Adventure galley, and was mutinous, and Kidd, as captain, was perfectly justified in knocking him down and even ...
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... they put an end to his long agony by shooting him, and flung the body into a costermonger's cart close to the gate. Several priests had got out of the prison of La Roquette. The Abbe Surat, on passing over a barricade, was so imprudent as to state who he was, and showed some articles of value he had about him. He had got as far as about the middle of the Boulevard du Prince Eugene, when he was arrested and taken back to the prison, where they prepared to shoot him. But the young woman whom I have before mentioned, with a revolver in one hand and a dagger in the other, rushed at ...
— Paris under the Commune • John Leighton
... manner, after all, of the "Psalm of Life" that has made it so strangely popular. People tell us, excellent people, that it is "as good as a sermon," that they value it for this reason, that its lesson has strengthened the hearts of men in our difficult life. They say so, and they think so: but the poem is not nearly as good as a sermon; it is not even coherent. But it really has an original cadence of its own, with its ...
— Letters on Literature • Andrew Lang
... our first experiment in democratic political and economic organization was founded partly on temporary conditions and partly on erroneous theories. A new experiment must consequently be made; and the great value of this new experiment would derive from the implied intellectual and moral emancipation. Its trial would demand both the sacrifice of many cherished interests, habits, and traditions for the sake of remaining true ...
— The Promise Of American Life • Herbert David Croly
... a horse of you for a hundred dollars, and, in order to increase the apparent value of that horse, with the idea of selling him to some one else, I should go around informing people I had paid three hundred dollars, would you be responsible in any way? Do you feel that in any manner you would be party ...
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