valure
English
Etymology
From Middle English valure, from Old French valeur, valur, from Latin valor, reshaped as if suffixed with -ure. Doublet of valour.
Noun
valure (countable and uncountable, plural valures)
- (obsolete) Value.
- a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “[The Thirde Booke] The Publike Griefe Amplified. […]”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC, folio 349, recto:
- [H]auing before their compaſſionate ſenſe ſo paſſionate a ſpectacle, of a young man, of great beautie, beautified with great honour, honored by great valure, made of ineſtimable valure, by the noble vſing of it, to lye there languiſhing, vnder the arreſt of death, […]
- 1613, Samuel Purchas, “[Asia.] Of the Islands of Iapon, and Their Religions.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimage. Or Relations of the World and the Religions Observed in All Ages and Places Discouered, from the Creation vnto this Present. […], London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, book V (Of the East-Indies: And of the Seas and Ilands about Asia, with Their Religions), page 442:
- Thus he [Toyotomi Hideyoshi], which in his youth had vſed to cut wood and carry it into the Market to ſell for his daily ſuſtenance, for his valure promoted in militarie honours, at laſt became the greateſt Monarch that Iapon had ſeene in eight hundred yeares, […]
References
- “valure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.