Verb
(transitive) To assess (something) as being valuable or admirable.
(transitive) To fix the price of (something) at an artificially high level, usually by government action.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgWhen we valorize ignorance and debase reason, we diminish man and the humanity that dwells within him, to bum an old fashioned phrase from Kant. Laura Penny
The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and curators valorize the sixties. People who wrote about these artists 30 years ago still write about them in the same ways, often for the same magazines. Jerry Saltz