"underpulse" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "under- + pulse",
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      "form": "underpulses",
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          "ref": "1883, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Sights and Insights: Patience Strong's Story of Over the Way, page 18",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1894, Edgar Fawcett, Outrageous Fortune, page 126",
          "text": "He began lightly, but her unforeseen surrender gave to the next words an underpulse of feeling that quite spoiled his response as comedy.",
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          "ref": "2011, Debra Doyle, James D. Macdonald, The Stars Asunder: A New Novel of the Mageworlds",
          "text": "What was missing from the experience, though, was the driving, knife-sharp underpulse of fear.",
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          "ref": "2015, Daniel Albright, Putting Modernism Together: Literature, Music, and Painting, 1872–1927, page 70",
          "text": "The music seems to have no particular sense of beginning or end: it doesn't drive toward a cadence; it simply elaborates the big waves with little waves, underpulses, in the way that the surge of surf on a beach falls into long rhythms of tide and medium rhythms of regular wave fall and short rhythms of little splashes at the end of the regular wave fall.",
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        "An underlying pulse, flow, or impulse."
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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "The music seems to have no particular sense of beginning or end: it doesn't drive toward a cadence; it simply elaborates the big waves with little waves, underpulses, in the way that the surge of surf on a beach falls into long rhythms of tide and medium rhythms of regular wave fall and short rhythms of little splashes at the end of the regular wave fall.",
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