Definition for UN-DER-VAL'UE

UN-DER-VAL'UE, v.t.

  1. To value, rate or estimate below the real worth.
  2. To esteem lightly; to treat as of little worth. In comparison of the discharge of my duties, I undervalued all designs of authority. Atterbury.
  3. 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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