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VALUED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(usually used in combination) having value of a specified kind
Example:
triple-valued
Classified under:
Similar:
quantitative (expressible as a quantity or relating to or susceptible of measurement)
Domain usage:
combining form (a bound form used only in compounds)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Held in great esteem for admirable qualities especially of an intrinsic nature
Example:
precious memories
Synonyms:
precious; valued
Classified under:
Similar:
worthy (having worth or merit or value; being honorable or admirable)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb value
Context examples:
I thought perhaps the alterations had disturbed some old associations he valued.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
What was of value to the master he valued; what was dear to the master was to be cherished by White Fang and guarded carefully.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
Jo valued goodness highly, but she also possessed a most feminine respect for intellect, and a little discovery which she made about the Professor added much to her regard for him.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Therefore, I brought them back, and on the first day at home I took one round to Spink's, and asked him to have it roughly cut and valued.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I have valued myself on honourable toils and just rewards.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
A portrait—very like—of a departed wife, not valued by the husband!
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
These are often listed on ingredient lists as ADBAC and DDAC, respectively, and are valued for their antimicrobial and antistatic properties, as well as their ability to lower surface tension.
(Common Household Chemicals Lead to Birth Defects in Mice, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The existence of these rooms has always been a family secret, though it was one which I valued so little that it was only the chance of my seldom using the house which had prevented me from pointing them out to some friend.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Go, then, my dear Watson, and if my humble counsel can ever be valued at so extravagant a rate as two pence a word, it waits your disposal night and day at the end of the Continental wire.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Walking along the street, reflecting upon the probability of something turning up (of which I am at present rather sanguine), I find a young but valued friend turn up, who is connected with the most eventful period of my life; I may say, with the turning-point of my existence.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
