"undernimen" meaning in Middle English

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          "ref": "1858 (original: circa 1400), Mary Cowden Clarke (editor), Geoffrey Chaucer (author), The Canterbury Tales, in World-noted Women; Or, Types of Womanly Attributes of All Land and Ages, page 107",
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          "english": "Alas! that it is great slander to our faith and to our law, when folk that be without law shall reprove us and undernim us of our sins, [...]\n(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
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          "english": "And, when she came to the point for to say that thing which she had so long concealed, her confessor was a little too hasty and gan sharply to undernim her ere that she had fully said her intent, and so she would no more say […]\n(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
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        "to blame; reprove; rebuke; reprimand; reprehend"
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