underween

English

Etymology

From under- + ween.

Verb

underween (third-person singular simple present underweens, present participle underweening, simple past and past participle underweened)

  1. (transitive) To undervalue.
    • 1837, Edward Fisher, ‎Thomas Boston, The Marrow of Modern Divinity: In Two Parts, page 290:
      ...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,
    • 1977, Cornell University, Epoch: Volumes 27-28:
      You'd better underween.
    • 2006 April 25, Sanity, “A prayer for freedom from religion”, in alt.gathering.rainbow, Usenet:
      Really? I thought Dubya was underweened.
    • 2012 January 12, tony cooper, “"Apothegmbusters4" - Nod = Wink to Blind Man”, in alt.philosophy, Usenet:
      Harrison has little to offer, but comparatively underweens.

Derived terms

Anagrams

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.