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- verb Alternative spelling of
valorize .
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Examples
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It would, I feel, be validating the very situation that requires redress if the BSFA Awards were to valorise abstractions that bear only a passing relevance to the field over a commentary that bears directly on its practical, political realities, not least because of the disparities of privilege at play here.
Archive 2010-01-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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It would, I feel, be validating the very situation that requires redress if the BSFA Awards were to valorise abstractions that bear only a passing relevance to the field over a commentary that bears directly on its practical, political realities, not least because of the disparities of privilege at play here.
BSFA Nomination Hal Duncan 2010
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The whole thrust, not subtly rendered, is to valorise 'faith', 'belief', 'being nice to people' and so on.
The Tooth Fairy (2010) Adam Roberts 2010
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The Empire never ended because the Paraclete's exile is enforced not just by the Emperor but by his subjugated people, Gnostic or Paulian, who valorise the divorce of flesh and soul, the demonisation of the former in Dionysian Satan and the idealisation of the latter in Apollonian Christ.
THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART ONE Hal Duncan 2007
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You should have rolled with that one a bit and said that you valorise them for their attitude towards received behavioural norms, and that you view criticisms of them on "moral" grounds as based on problematic binary oppositions.
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You should have rolled with that one a bit and said that you valorise them for their attitude towards received behavioural norms, and that you view criticisms of them on "moral" grounds as based on problematic binary oppositions.
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L'important est de trouver une activité qui le valorise, qui lui permette de prendre confiance.
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2004
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But my theory, which is mine, is that he failed to valorise erotic capital.
The Guardian World News John Crace 2011
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The Literature Contest, which was established in 1987 by SONANGOL, in cooperation with UEA, is a social project intended to valorise the national writers.
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The Literature Contest, which was established in 1987 by SONANGOL, in cooperation with UEA, is a social project intended to valorise the national writers.
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