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▪ I. ˈunderˌvalue, n.
[under-1 10 b.]
1. Insufficiency in worth. rare—1.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. To King §3 What defects and vndervalewes I finde in such particular actes.
2. An inadequate monetary value; an amount or price below the real value.
1611Cotgr., Non-prix, an vnder value, or vnderprice. 1631T. Powell Tom All Trades 3 Poverty sells all at an vnder value. 1690Child Disc. Trade 101 We shall buy Ships..for half their cost, which under value in purchase will be a present clear profit to England. 1737Ld. Hardwicke in Harris Life & Lett. (1847) I. 362 A bishop..calling in his tenants to fill up leases at an undervalue. 1769Warburton Lett. to Hurd (1809) 438 The magnificent set of Chelsea China..she took care should not go at an under⁓value. 1829Southey Sir T. More (1831) II. 163 Persons who buy..because they are tempted by the undervalue at which it is offered. 1885Law Times Rep. LII. 648/2 Shaw knew that he was buying at an undervalue.
†3. An under-estimate of worth or importance; = undervaluation 2. Obs.
1615A. Stafford Heav. Dogge 35 Diogenes knew his owne deserts, and was neerer the ouer then the undervalew of himselfe. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 345 That gentlewoman that inverted the undervalue of Marriages Maxime, ‘next to no wife a good wife the best’. 1680J. Aubrey Brief Lives (1898) I. 302 He did not care for chymistrey, and was wont to speake against them with undervalue.
▪ II. ˌunderˈvalue, v.
[under-1 10 a.]
†1. trans. To rate as inferior in value to. Obs.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. ii. vii. 53 Or shall I thinke in Siluer she's immur'd Being ten times vndervalued to tride gold. 1612in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. I. 602 Which entertainment they could not afford him, for that thei would not undervalewe themselves to y⊇ Spanishe greatenes.
2. To rate at too low a monetary value. Also fig.
1599Minutes Archdeaconry Colchester fol. 257 b (MS.), Dominus, eo quod constat that the goods ar vndervalued, dyd appoynt the same goods to be again apriced. 1619Fletcher Knt. Malta v. i, How much you undervalue your own price, To give your unbought self, for a poor woman? 1765Museum Rust. IV. 68 In your note..I observe you think the price of the corn undervalued. 1885Law Times 7 Feb. 269/1 There was a strong reason why Mr. Thomas should over-value rather than under-value the goods.
b. To reduce or diminish in value; to make of less value or worth.
1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 385 It followeth that the Siluer is vnderualued, and the Gold aduanced. 1692C. O'K[elly] in Irish Narr. (Camden) 69 What undervalued it [sc. the coinage] most was the little esteem the great ones about court shewed for it. 1709Steele Tatler No. 61 ⁋4 'Tis such silly Starts and Incoherences which undervalue the beauteous Sex. 1866Rogers Agric. & Prices I. xi. 179 The currency has been undervalued by the fraudulent issue.
†c. To fall short of in value. Obs.
1657J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 182 What follows is such pittiful stuff, as would under-value the worth of a piece of paper to vouchsafe it a confute.
3. To estimate or esteem too low; to value or appreciate insufficiently; to depreciate.
1611Florio, Sottostimare, to vnder-value or esteeme. 1620Gataker Spirituall Watch 114 These that so highly ouer⁓prize their owne priuate deuotions, as thus to vnder-value the publike assemblies of Gods Saints. 1653W. Ramesey Astrol. Restored To Rdr. 17 Vertue..wanting preferment, and truth riches, shall be disrespected and undervalued. 1713Arbuthnot John Bull iii. i, Extolling their own good qualities, and undervaluing those of others. 1771Junius Lett. lv. (1788) 302 A vain man does not usually compare himself to an object which it is his design to undervalue. 1824Miss Mitford Village Ser. i. 210 We shall have a fine sunshiny day to-morrow,—a blessing not to be undervalued. 1884Church Bacon iii. 59 He was no mere idealist or recluse to undervalue or despise the real grandeur of the world.
refl.1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. iii. xv, Schollers..haue store of gold, but know not the worth of it, they vnder-value themselues. 1822Hazlitt Table-T. Ser. ii. 341 He who undervalues himself is justly undervalued by others.
Hence undervalued (stress variable) ppl. a.
1628Quarles Argalus & P. i. 30 So rare a Branch, whose undervalued worth Brings greater glory to the Arcadian Land, Then can the dull Arcadians understand. 1661Boyle Style of Script. (1675) 89 His so much undervalued Parables..comprise important prophecies. |