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n. - The positive quality of having considerable monetary worth; Costing or bringing a high price

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  • Noun : They locked their valuables in the hotel safe
  • They hold that there is such a thing as objective valuableness; namely, that which a rational person, acting consistently and within the confines of the facts, would value.
  • The valuableness of it; it was an image of gold, not all gold surely; rich as he was, it is probable that he could not afford that, but overlaid with gold.
  • Here was a youth, with the qualities of potential great valuableness, and the wise editor, as soon as this appeared, gave him his chance by calling him off the fields of...
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