Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for UN-DER-VAL'UE
UN-DER-VAL'UE, v.t.
- To value, rate or estimate below the real worth.
- To esteem lightly; to treat as of little worth. In comparison of the discharge of my duties, I undervalued all designs of authority. Atterbury.
- To despise; to hold in mean estimation. I write not this with the least intention to undervalue the other parts of poetry. Dryden.
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