Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who undervalues, or esteems too lightly.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who undervalues.

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  • noun One who undervalues.

Etymologies

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undervalue +‎ -er

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Examples

  • My next and last example shall be that undervaluer of money, the late Provost of Eaton Colledg, Sir Henry Wotton,

    The Compleat Angler 2007

  • The undervaluer has frequently to make a tool of a man in his employ.

    Constance Dunlap 1908

  • For ourselves we can truly say -- never did we know a human being, boy or girl, who began life as an habitual undervaluer of truth, that did not afterwards exhibit a character conformable to that beginning -- such a character as, however superficially correct under the steadying hand of self-interest, was not in a lower key of moral feeling as well as of principle.

    Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • The "Monthly Review" sneers at me, and asks "if 'Comus' is not _good enough_ for Mr. Lamb?" because I have said no good serious dramas have been written since the death of Charles the First, except "Samson Agonistes"; so because they do not know, or won't remember, that "Comus" was written long before, I am to be set down as an undervaluer of Milton!

    The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb Mary Lamb 1805

  • My next and last example shall be that undervaluer of money, the late

    The Complete Angler 1653 Izaak Walton 1638

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