underpulse
underpulse noun: an underlying pulse, flow, or impulse.
Noun
underpulse (plural underpulses)
- 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...1883, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Sights and Insights: Patience Strong's Story of Over the Way, page 18
- He began lightly, but her unforeseen surrender gave to the next words an underpulse of feeling that quite spoiled his response as comedy.1894, Edgar Fawcett, Outrageous Fortune, page 126
Forms of underpulse
| plural | underpulses |
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Origin of underpulse
From under- + pulse.
Questions about underpulse
- What does underpulse mean?
- Underpulse means an underlying pulse, flow, or impulse.
- What part of speech is underpulse?
- Underpulse is a noun.
- What is the plural of underpulse?
- The plural of underpulse is underpulses.
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