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VALUABLENBSS.<br />

married to a very \-aluable person. 1730 Southall Treat.<br />

Bitggi 3 The late Learned and truly Valuable Dr. Wood*<br />

ward, .approv'd the Design.<br />

+ 3. That can be valued ; capable of having the<br />

value estimated. Ois. rare.<br />

x6a7 Sanderson Serm. (1682) I. 363 That sin ..from which<br />

he hath once escaped without shame, or so much as valueable<br />

loss. 1690 Locke Ge value of a grote ! c 1386<br />

Chaucer Frankl. T. 845 He .. broghte gold vn-to this<br />

Philosopbre The value of fyue hundred pound I gesse<br />

x4xa-3o Lydg. Chron. Troyu. 124 We trewfy may aduerten<br />

..pat 'for the valu of a ^ing of nou^t, Mortal causes and<br />

werris first bygonne. c X450 Merlin vii. 120 Of all the<br />

barneys that thei hade brought thider, thei hadde not with<br />

hem the valew of iji*. a 1533 Lo. Berners Huon xliiL 145<br />

Thou shalt not lese the valew of one peny. Ibid. Ixviii. 234<br />

They left not in y^ abbey the valew of a floren. X613<br />

PuRCHAS Pilgrimage (1614) 652 A Bason, wherein each puts<br />

the value of twelue pence in Gold. 1771 Encycl. Brit. III.<br />

260/2 If. .the new guineas are below the value of a pound<br />

sterling in silver. 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 322/2 A gold coin<br />

of the assayed value of 5A i8j. Zd. 1887 IVhitaker's Aim.<br />

183 Bronze coinage.. to the value of;£57,563.<br />

b. In contemptuous comparisons. Now rare,<br />

c X380 Sir Ferumb. 124 Ne doutet? he kyng ne Emperour<br />

)>e value of a ryssche. Ibid, 5441 pat i'e Amerel ne drede]>

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