underroot

noun

1. An underlying root or basis

   figuratively

   The word Bapt cannot here, any more than elsewhere, explain itself, There is nothing back of it. It has no underroot.

Where it comes from

From Middle English underwroten, equivalent to under- + root.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry underroot (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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