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/ˈəndərvˌælju/ Listen

noun

Undervalue n. A low rate or price; a price less than the real worth; undervaluation.

verb

Undervalue v. t.

To value, rate, or estimate below the real worth; to depreciate.

To esteem lightly; to treat as of little worth; to hold in mean estimation; to despise. "In comparison of it I undervalued all ensigns of authority." "I write not this with the least intention to undervalue the other parts of poetry."

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Etymology of 'Undervalue'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... One easily might undervalue Adelle's passion, however, if it were judged solely by its intellectual quality. The beauty and the wonder of passion is that it cannot be weighed by any mental scales, its terms are not transferable. Adelle's share of the universal ...

— Clark's Field • Robert Herrick

... hitherto regarded the representative of her father's house, seemed now to lose all that hereditary respect, and prompt her to outshine and undervalue the elder branch of her family. She behaved to Mrs. Pickle with a sort of civil reserve that implied a conscious superiority; and an emulation in point of grandeur immediately commenced between the two sisters. She every day communicated ...

— The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I • Tobias Smollett

... past? No, do not believe that, Ida. Nothing in this world is such an illusion as this belief. Life is rich; its tree blossoms eternally, because it is nourished by immortal fountains. It bears dissimilar fruits, varies in colour and glory, but all beautiful; let us undervalue none of them, for all of them are capable of producing ...

— The Home • Fredrika Bremer

... concocted by the Board of Control and the hon. Member for Guildford and his Colleagues I shall, therefore, confine myself at present to the discussion of that plan. Some persons are disposed very much (at least I am afraid so) to undervalue the particular point which I am endeavouring to bring before the House; and they seem to fancy that it does not much matter what shall be the form of government in India, since the population of that country will always be in a condition of great impoverishment and much suffering; and that ...

— Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 • John Bright

... peculiarity which, exercised towards sensible men, stirs a kindly chord of attachment that a marked assertiveness would leave untouched, but inevitably leads the most sensible woman in the world to undervalue him who practises it. Directly domineering ceases in the man, snubbing begins in the woman; the trite but no less unfortunate fact being that the gentler creature rarely has the capacity to appreciate fair treatment from her natural complement. The abiding perception of the position of Stephen's ...

— A Pair of Blue Eyes • Thomas Hardy

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