underween

To undervalue.

Verb

  1. To undervalue.
    • ...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, - 1837, Edward Fisher, Thomas Boston, The Marrow of...
    • You'd better underween. - 1977, Cornell University, Epoch: Volumes 27-28:
    • Really? I thought Dubya was underweened. - 2006 April 25, Sanity, “A prayer for freedom from religion”, in alt.gathering.rainbow (Usenet):

Origin

From under- + ween.

Forms

underweens underweening underweened

Derived

underweening