Obs. [UNDER-1 10 b.] Under-estimation (of self or of something).

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1574.  trans. Marlorat’s Apocalips, 16. The words that he [sc. St. John] set here … sauor of a certayne singular vnderweening.

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1682.  Sir T. Browne, Chr. Mor., III. § 25. But the greatest underweening of this Life is to undervalue that, unto which this is but exordial.

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