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As I read, I realized that in carving up the book I had unwittingly made a physical fact of its stylistic and thematic inchoateness.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 6, 2005

But historically and also genetically or logically the dance in its inchoateness, its undifferentiatedness, comes first.

From Ancient Art and Ritual by Harrison, Jane Ellen

It is this inchoateness, this undifferentiatedness, that, apart from historical fact, makes us feel sure that logically the dance is primitive.

From Ancient Art and Ritual by Harrison, Jane Ellen

Since then Scripture needs completion, the question is brought to this issue, whether defect or inchoateness in its doctrines be or be not an antecedent probability in favour of a development of them.

From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by Newman, John Henry Cardinal