[f. as prec.] That undervalues; depreciatory.
1639. Saltmarsh, Policy, I. cxi. 93. If any have had a poore and undervaluing conceit of you.
1648. Jenkyn, Blind Guide, iv. 88. Those undervalewing expressions.
1691. trans. Emiliane’s Frauds Rom. Monks (ed. 3), 412. This Notion … of the Protestants was so far from giving me an undervaluing Conceit of them [etc.].
1863. Cowden Clarke, Shaks. Char., vi. 148. To write a flippant, undervaluing word of one of Shakespeare’s characters.
Hence Undervaluing-like a.; -valuingly adv.
1637. Henshaw, Medit. (1639), 18. Not slightly and undervaluingly to speake of other mens vertues.
1707. Norris, Treat. Humility, vi. 289. To lessen and vilify himself, and speak … very undervaluingly of his own worth.
1782. J. Brown, Nat. & Rev. Relig., II. i. 117. He uttered several undervaluing like words to his mother.
