undernature
nounEtymology From under- + nature.
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No plural An underlying, secretive, or surreptitious nature.
- Along the lines of likes, persons naturally seek each other or respond to the call of undernature and inaugurate their procedures without special exercise of will or intelligence or sacrifice of personal choice, and move as a body […]1904, Mind: Science, Philosophy, Religion, Psychology, Metaphysics, volume 14:
- For moments at a time in the watching the bluntness is bent away from itself to some undernature and it feels its deep wilderness mind, moving, intent, fully itself, crossing through bush, over saplings, crossing road into encampment, wilderness mind, two thousand miles to the west.2013, Michael Helm, Cities of Refuge, page 400:
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- How do they hide their wild undernature, their inventive nocturnal selves, put on their clothes and go out about their business?2014, Lia Mills, Fallen: