ppl. a. [UN-1 8, 5 b.]
1. Not estimated or fixed in value; extremely great or valuable. Now rare.
1586. Marlowe, 1st Pt. Tamburl., I. ii. Whatsoeuer you esteeme of this successe, and losse vnvallued, Both may inuest you Empresse of the East.
1594. Spenser, Amoretii, lxxvii. There in a siluer dish did ly twoo golden apples of vnualewd price.
1607. Middleton, Fam. Lov., I. ii. Art or nature never yet could set A valued price to her unvalued worth.
1638. Aleyn, Hen. VII., 73. He … drew him clad In furniture of an unvalued worth.
1662. H. Hibbert, Body of Divinity, II. 30. The saving benefits of his unvalued passion.
1713. Johnson, Guard., No. 4, ¶ 3. I have been so happy in my searches … that I have found unvalued repositories of learning.
1736. Thomson, Liberty, V. 503. The kind Art, that, of unvalu’d price, The fam’d and only picture, easy, gives.
1820. Shelley, Arethusa, 60. Through the weltering floods, Over heaps of unvalued stones [= jewels].
b. Not subjected to formal valuation.
1807. Ann. Rev., V. 176. If real property, instead of passing entire and unvalued to the heir at law, were put up to the highest bidder.
2. Not regarded as of value.
1602. Shaks., Ham., I. ii. 19. Hee may not, as vnuallued persons doe, Carue for himselfe.
1615. G. Wither, Fidelia, 707. Though my faith must now despised be, Vnpriz’d, vnualued at the lowest rate.
1670. Clarendon, Contempl. Ps., Tracts (1727), 740. The inestimable, tho’ unvalued benefit of health, we seldom thank God for.
1823. Mrs. Hemans, Siege Valencia, viii. I have cast Thy life’s fair honour, in my wild despair, As an unvalued gem upon the waves.
1852. Mrs. Stowe, Uncle Tom’s C., xxxv. A hard-tempered sire, on whom that gentle woman had wasted a world of unvalued love.
1870. Lowell, Among My Books, Ser. I. (1873), 203. Recalling and confirming our own unvalued sensations and perceptions.
