Definition of "undergirding" []

• Present participle of undergird. (verb)

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• "Statistics were the "undergirding" of Africa's poverty reduction policies and programmes."
• "North Carolina when I was there and I knew him very well and he was very much involved with the Fellowship, very much interested in what was going on and it was with this kind of undergirding that was going on ... it wasn't just technique and it wasn't just action ... it was something that motivated him."
• "This historical sequence forged the sociological undergirding for the much discussed culture wars of our time."