Underpulse
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 An underlying pulse, flow, or impulse.
"He did nothing, as yet, which was really the reverse ; he did not make her his evident object, —it seems to me that this is always a high and delicate test of gentlemanhood, — and yet, to me, who felt an underpulse in all these things, there was a plain perception, that as it had been she from whom he went away, it was to her now that he was come back."
Example
More examples"He did nothing, as yet, which was really the reverse ; he did not make her his evident object, —it seems to me that this is always a high and delicate test of gentlemanhood, — and yet, to me, who felt an underpulse in all these things, there was a plain perception, that as it had been she from whom he went away, it was to her now that he was come back."
Etymology
From under- + pulse.
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