Both Uses
underlie
in
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
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- It frightened her, the anger underlying his words.†
p. 51.1
- 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 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(underlie) is the root cause or basis for something; or to physically lie beneath something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)