Deactivate allowed values for a property

Summary:

Can we 'de-activate' instead of remove a value from the allowed values list of a custom property? It appears that removing a value will cause validation errors for existing assignments of this property. Is there a way to keep the past assignments of a value for a property but make it invalid for future selections?

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