over-value

See also: overvalue

English

Verb

over-value (third-person singular simple present over-values, present participle over-valuing, simple past and past participle over-valued)

1. Alternative form of overvalue.
   • 1889, Elia W[ilkinson] Peattie, “‘We Are Coming, Father Abraham.’ […]”, in The Story of America: Containing the Romantic Incidents of History, from the Discovery of America to the Present Time, San Francisco, Calif., Chicago, Ill.: R. S. King Publishing Company, page 538:

     The people were more than prompt in their response, but they over-valued the raw troops which then swarmed to Washington. They believed that because the men felt like fighting, that they knew how to do it.

   • 1989, Paul Hockings, “The Badagas”, in Paul Hockings, editor, Blue Mountains: The Ethnography and Biogeography of a South Indian Region, Delhi, Oxford, Oxon, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 228:

     Indeed, an underlying theme in those legends is that Hette is an outstanding individual because she over-values certain ideals that those around her under-value: she over-values virginity, whereas her elder sister under-values it to the point of marrying (eloping?) a man other than the one her father had designated for her as a husband. Hette over-values marital fidelity, in direct contrast to the behaviour of her own husband. She over-values vegetarianism, in contrast with the meat-eating stepson, Batrabala.

   • 1999, David Wykes, “A Legitimate Contribution to the War Effort: 1939–51”, in Evelyn Waugh: A Literary Life, Basingstoke, Hants., London: Macmillan Press Ltd; New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, Inc., →ISBN, page 155:

     Many people at the time of publication were so happy to believe that [Evelyn] Waugh had returned to his old ways with The Loved One that they over-valued the book. It is a fine comic novel with a truly Wavian subject, but no masterpiece.