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English
Etymology
From under- + say.
Pronunciation
Verb
undersay (third-person singular simple present undersays, present participle undersaying, simple past and past participle undersaid)
- (obsolete) To say by way of derogation or contradiction.
1579, Immeritô , “September. Ægloga Nona.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: , London: Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, , →OCLC:They say, they con to heaven the highway; But by my soul I dare undersay, They never set foot on that same troad, But balke their right way, and strayen abroad.
- To understate.
1899, W.D. Howells, “The New Poetry”, in The North American Review, volume 168, page 586:My words undersay it, of course; I mean something rarer than critical, something better than ethical, and perhaps I had better retreat upon such a word as spiritual.
1913, Laurence Jerrold, The French and the English, page 60:How to undersay things when so many oversay them is one thing learnt.
1981, Patricia A. Moody, Writing Today: A Rhetoric and Handbook, page 120:Try not to overqualify or undersay what you have to say.
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