valorize

Verb

valorize (third-person singular simple present valorizes, present participle valorizing, simple past and past participle valorized)

1. (transitive) To assess (something) as being valuable or admirable.
   • […]noting his tendency “to valorise my father and, I'm afraid, to demonise her because of some of the tendencies she had: she was very harsh. That was a faint undertone to my 'idyllic' childhood, I suppose.”2001 May 12, Robert Potts, quoting Paul Muldoon, “The poet at play”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
   • Creating a historical dictionary for a variety of English valorises that variety by linking it to national history and national identity.2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 115
2. (transitive) To fix the price of (something) at an artificially high level, usually by government action.