Obs. [f. prec.]

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  1.  A taker-up or supporter.

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a. 1400.  in Eng. Gilds (1870), 350. Non of þe for-seyde fowre and twenty ne shal … be tellere ne vndurnemere of wordes in harmynge of þe fraunchyse of þe town.

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  2.  One who reproves or rebukes.

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1382.  Wyclif, Prov. xiii. 18. Who forsothe assenteth to the vndernymere, shal ben glorified.

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c. 1449.  Pecock, Repr., IV. vi. 452. These vndirnymers and blamers beren an hond to the clergie, that [etc.]. Ibid., V. xv. 565. Alle the seid ouer myche vndirnemers and blamers.

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