underween
verbEtymology From under- + ween.
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Nonstandard, Rare To undervalue.
- ...in this Commandment is forbidden too high a conceit or esteem of ourselves, and so also is too mean a conceit, in underweening the good things that be in ourselves,1837, Edward Fisher, Thomas Boston, The Marrow of Modern Divinity: In Two Parts, page 290:
- You'd better underween.1977, Cornell University, Epoch: Volumes 27-28:
2 more examples
- Really? I thought Dubya was underweened.2006 April 25, Sanity, “A prayer for freedom from religion”, in alt.gathering.rainbow (Usenet):
- Harrison has little to offer, but comparatively underweens.2012 January 12, tony cooper, “"Apothegmbusters4" - Nod = Wink to Blind Man”, in alt.philosophy (Usenet):
- Derived terms
- underweening