underweening

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underweening

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From underween + -ing.

noun

  1. uncountable Undervaluation. Here is forbidden an over or underweening of the good things in our selves,

adjective more underweening · most underweening

  1. Extremely modest. It is quite possible Challis may think you have an overweening estimate of foreigners and that a particular foreigner may think that your estimate of him is underweening as compared with his own.

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of underween

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@misc{underweening_2026,
  title = {underweening},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/underweening},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}