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valourize

valourize is the alternative form of valorize.

Meaning of 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
  2. (transitive) To fix the price of (something) at an artificially high level, usually by government action.

Forms of valourize

third-person singular presentvalourizes
present participlevalourizing
past participlevalourized
pastvalourized

Origin of valourize

From valour + -ize.

Questions about valourize

What is valourize the alternative form of?
Valourize is the alternative form of valorize.

Words near valourize in the dictionary

  1. valourisation
  2. valourisations
  3. valourise
  4. valourization
  5. valourizations
  6. valourize
  7. valourless
  8. valourous
  9. valourously
  10. valourousness
  11. valours

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Adapted from Wiktionary: valourize (page history and authors); valorize (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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