underpulses

Noun

underpulse (plural underpulses)

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...1883, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Sights and Insights: Patience Strong's Story of Over the Way, page 18