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▪ I. ˌunderˈvaluing, vbl. n. [f. as prec.] The act of estimating at too low a value.
1636Sanderson Serm. (1681) II. 65 Your under-valuing of me..hath made that glorying now necessary for me. 1661Lowther in Extr. St. Papers Friends Ser. ii. (1911) 117 To the undervalewing of his Majesties Authorety. 1697G. Burghope Disc. Relig. Assemb. 167 A manifest undervaluing of Christ. 1831E. Irving Exp. Rev. I. 85 Against all such undervaluings I present these words of the Eternal and Unchangeable. 1871R. H. Hutton Ess. I. 129 Even in the highest of the prophetic strains there is perhaps an under⁓valuing of Nature. ▪ II. ˌunderˈvaluing, ppl. a. [f. as prec.] That undervalues; depreciatory.
1639J. Saltmarsh Policy i. cxi. 93 If any have had a poore and undervaluing conceit of you. 1648W. Jenkyn Blind Guide iv. 88 Those undervalewing expressions. 1691tr. Emiliane's Frauds Rom. Monks (ed. 3) 412 This Notion..of the Protestants was so far from giving me an undervaluing Conceit of them [etc.]. 1863Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. vi. 148 To write a flippant, undervaluing word of one of Shakespeare's characters. Hence underˈvaluing-like a.; -ˈvaluingly adv.
1637Henshaw Medit. (1639) 18 Not slightly and under⁓valuingly to speake of other mens vertues. 1707Norris Treat. Humility vi. 289 To lessen and vilify himself, and speak..very undervaluingly of his own worth. 1782J. Brown Nat. & Rev. Relig. ii. i. 117 He uttered several undervaluing like words to his mother. |