incipiency
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of incipiency
First recorded in 1810–20; incipi(ent) + -ency
Vocabulary lists containing incipiency
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He traces her malady from its incipiency, through the successive disquieting manifestations of hysteria, melancholia, and fury, broken by periods of partial and even complete mental lucidity.
From De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera by Francis Augustus MacNutt
Yet this conceit in its incipiency, he knew not how to account for.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
What was afterwards known as the Lincoln County War was just then in its incipiency.
From Little Pills, An Army Story Being Some Experiences of a United States Army Medical Officer on the Frontier Nearly a Half Century Ago by Robert Henderson McKay
Now the careful physician diagnoses tuberculosis much earlier, detects the disease in its incipiency, and is able to treat the patient at home quite successfully, if conditions are at all favorable.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
And now you are afraid that your wife is developing the same propensity, and you ask me to use my influence to cure her of it in its incipiency.
From A Woman of the World Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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