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English
Etymology
From under- + ween.
Verb
underween (third-person singular simple present underweens, present participle underweening, simple past and past participle underweened)
- (transitive, rare or nonstandard) 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.
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