Both Uses of
underlie
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- It frightened her, the anger underlying his words.†
p. 51.0
- It was true that he'd once sought unity, as if the underlying correspondences between tulips and lungs, veins and trees, flesh and earth, might reveal a pattern he could understand.†
p. 202.5 *
Definition:
is the root cause or basis for something;
or: lie underneath
or: lie underneath