"undersay" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From under- + say.",
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          "text": "They say, they con to heaven the highway; But by my soul I dare undersay, They never set foot on that same troad, But balke their right way, and strayen abroad.",
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        "(obsolete) To say by way of derogation or contradiction."
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          "ref": "1899, W.D. Howells, “The New Poetry”, in The North American Review, volume 168, page 586:",
          "text": "My words undersay it, of course; I mean something rarer than critical, something better than ethical, and perhaps I had better retreat upon such a word as spiritual.",
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          "ref": "1913, Laurence Jerrold, The French and the English, page 60:",
          "text": "How to undersay things when so many oversay them is one thing learnt.",
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        "To understate."
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