to valorize

Examples

• All

• So it's really important for me to sort of valorize students voices and to show them that they're doing it.

• And this society reveres and rewards and valorises external success.

  High Performance

• I want to give a trophy to the person who wins the race because I think it's a good thing to valorize the best.

  Lex Fridman

• Public and private investments valorized the Zona Sul.

  Academic text (2012)

• "Closeness" not only serves to describe kinship relations, it also valorizes them.

  Academic text (2007)

• Art for Your Sake had frequently valorized Regionalism through art historical comparisons to old masters treated on the program.

  Academic text (2008)

• Improvements in public health valorized land in low-lying areas, allowing for higher population densities in some neighborhoods and commercial conversion in others.

  Academic text (2008)

• Egyptian art and literature valorized the age of the pharaoh in the poems and plays of Ahmad Shawki and Mahfouz's early novels.

  Academic text (2011)

• Further, the Indian Express published advertisements that valorized the Gandhi regime and the twenty-point program, thereby framing the Emergency as pro-development.

  Academic text (2017)

• The new policy aims to valorize the contributions of teachers in improving student outcomes.

Synonyms

C

to celebrate

vsto valorize

201 2.1

To praise someone in public for something they did

gives importance by formal or official recognition and promotion

G

to glorify

vsto valorize

86 5.2

To make a person or thing seem better and more important than they really are

gives importance by formal recognition without overstating actual worth

D

to dignify

vsto valorize

20 5.1

To show that someone or something deserves respect

gives importance especially by official recognition rather than just showing respect

V

to venerate

vsto valorize

• Formal

11 7.4

To show great respect for a person or thing

gives importance by official recognition rather than private deep reverence

L

to lionize

vsto valorize

• Literature

5 7.7

Treat someone like a famous person by giving public attention and praise

gives importance through formal recognition rather than mere public attention

A

to apotheosize

vsto valorize

• Literature

9.9

To make someone seem like a god or without faults

gives importance through recognition or promotion not divine elevation

Antonyms

D

to devalue

22 5.0

To make something seem less important or respected

How Valued

to glorify

86 5.2

to praise

331 1.0

to valorize

• Formal

1 8.3

to recognize

• Formal

377 1.4

to acknowledge

286 3.9

to mention

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology