incipiency
noun
the state or condition of being incipient.
incipience
-
a variation of
incipiency.
-
a word derived from
incipient.
incipientadjectivebeginning to exist or appear; in an initial stage.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Our author, as we see, begins his above quoted deliverance quite at a loss with regard to the agency to which the incipience, growth, and fructification of man's faculties should be attributed.
From West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas by J. J. (John Jacob) Thomas
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
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
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
H. J. Boulton; but Dundurn never advanced beyond incipience.
From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding
