incipiency
noun
the state or condition of being incipient.
incipience
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a variation of
incipiency.
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a word derived from
incipient.
incipientadjectivebeginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage.
Example Sentences
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Distraction surely, incipience of the "final deliration" enters upon the poor old English Formulism that has called itself for some two centuries a Church.
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Thomas Carlyle
And we could follow each curve of sound from its incipience to its final crash in the trenches.
From Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort by Edith Wharton
The scene in which I am stranded is picked out in sketchy incipience around me.
From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Fitzwater Wray
H. J. Boulton; but Dundurn never advanced beyond incipience.
From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding
He has no ray, no incipience of faculty beyond this.
From On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by John Ruskin
