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)
- 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
- To fix the price of (something) at an artificially high level, usually by government action.
Forms of valourize
| third-person singular present | valourizes |
|---|---|
| present participle | valourizing |
| past participle | valourized |
| past | valourized |
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
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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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