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English

Etymology

From underween +‎ -ing.

Noun

underweening (uncountable)

  1. Undervaluation.
    • 1637, A Short Treatise Contayning all the Principall Grounds of Christian Religion, page 211:
      Here is forbidden an over or underweening of the good things in our selves,
    • 1909, Sir Thomas Browne, Religio medici and other writings:
      But the greatest underweening of this life is to undervalue that, unto which this is but Exordial or a Passage leading unto it.

Adjective

underweening (comparative more underweening, superlative most underweening)

  1. Extremely modest.
    • 1995, James Clerk Maxwell, Elizabeth Garber, Stephen G. Brush, Maxwell on heat and statistical mechanics:
      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.
    • 1971, New York: Volume 4:
      But when this same, very likable but nebbishy comedian pretends to be that supremely ambitious youth, Phaethon, the tragic ride in the chariot of the Sun-God is reduced from overweening to underweening.
    • 2008, Chet Raymo, When God is gone everything is holy:
      Is it possible to be underweening? Too unassuming in one's opinions?
    • 2010, Rena Steinzor, Sidney Shapiro, The People's Agents and the Battle to Protect the American Public, →ISBN:
      In fact, if anything, it is an underweening bureaucracy.
    • 2011, Ellen B. Holzman, Edmund X. DeJesus, Lunch Reads Volume 3: Two Mystery Short Stories, →ISBN:
      This newspaper must not become a platform for the overweening to smother the opinions of the underweening.
    • 2013, John Campbell, Edward Heath: A Biography, →ISBN, page 502:
      'That underweening manner', Shrapnel commented, conveyed 'the reverse of modesty'.

Verb

underweening

  1. present participle and gerund of underween
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