Word Meanings - DISVALUATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Disesteem; depreciation; disrepute. Bacon.

Related words: (words related to DISVALUATION)

• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• DISESTEEMER
  One who disesteems. Boyle.
• DEPRECIATION
  1. The act of lessening, or seeking to lessen, price, value, or reputation. 2. The falling of value; reduction of worth. Burke. 3. the state of being depreciated.
• DISREPUTE
  Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit. At the beginning of the eighteenth century astrology fell into general disrepute. Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- Disesteem; discredit; dishonor; disgrace.
• DISESTEEM
  Want of esteem; low estimation, inclining to dislike; disfavor; disrepute. Disesteem and contempt of the public affairs. Milton.