non-treasure

English

Etymology

non- +‎ treasure

Noun

non-treasure (countable and uncountable, plural non-treasures)

1. Alternative form of nontreasure
   • 1979, Dervla Murphy, Wheels Within Wheels, page 90:

     Several of our non-treasures had to be dismissed within days for intolerable personal filthiness (there was the celebrated case of the louse on the table-napkin. . .) or irredeemable incompetence, or both.

   • 2016, Daniel Hirshberg, Remembering the Lotus-Born:

     Even in the normative tradition of recent centuries, core treasure liturgies are enhanced by ritual texts composed by means of ordinary, non-treasure authorship and yet these become regarded as treasure as well.