transvalue

English

Etymology

Back-formation from transvaluation.

Verb

transvalue (third-person singular simple present transvalues, present participle transvaluing, simple past and past participle transvalued)

1. To represent or evaluate something according to a new principle, causing it to be revalued.
   • 1995, Robert Alter, “Forward”, in Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism, →ISBN, page xxi:

     One of the attractions of the whole panorama of Jewish mysticism for Scholem is its vivid and manifold demonstration of how it is possible to maintain a historical identity and a certain sense of continuity of belief while vigorously transvaluing values, redefining world and self and the realm of the spirit as historical circumstances change.

Related terms

• transvaluation