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transvalue
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trans·val·ue  (trns-vly, trnz-)
tr.v. trans·val·ued, trans·val·u·ing, trans·val·ues
To evaluate by a new standard or principle, especially by one that varies from conventional standards.

trans·valu·ation n.

transvalue [trænzˈvæljuː]
vb -ues, -uing, -ued
(tr) to evaluate by a principle that varies from the accepted standards
transvaluation  n
transvaluer  n


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The third option along the church/religion-state continuum is often referred to as transvaluing separation (Weber, 1982).
One can read Mina's and Demetrius' act as two transnational diasporic subjects' subverting the social authority imposed upon them by modernity; such acts point to "forms of social antagonism and contradiction that are not yet properly represented, political identities in the process of being formed, cultural enunciations in the act of hybridity, in the process of translating and transvaluing cultural differences" (Bhabha, 252).
George Walker's lament on the potential transvaluing of romance and history with which I began ('Romances are only Histories which we do not believe to be true, and Histories are Romances which we do believe to be true'), like Bisset's dismissive treatment of Rhodomontade, registers the unease produced by the insertion of subjectivity into the narrative of public history.
 
 
 
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