Underweening

adj, noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Undervaluation. uncountable

    "Here is forbidden an over or underweening of the good things in our selves,"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of underween form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    Extremely modest.

    "It is quite possible Challis may think you have an overweening estimate of foreigners and that a particular foreigner may think that your estimate of him is underweening as compared with his own."

Synonyms

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undervaluationundervaluation

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"Here is forbidden an over or underweening of the good things in our selves,"

Etymology

From underween + -ing.

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