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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of valorise.

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Examples

  • In contrast, the text's poetic diction valorises the romantic nationalism which inspires Alroy as he looks upon a ruined city of the East:

    Valman - Criticism - Critical Contexts 2002

  • Crucial struggles like the fight against US militarism, mass incarceration, and anti-immigrant hysteria are pushed to the margins of the gay agenda, which valorises the right to serve in the military, the need to further empower a criminal legal system through hate crimes legislation, and marriage as the ultimate solution for citizenship woes.

    NOBODY PASSES, darling < 2010

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