incipiency
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of incipiency
First recorded in 1810–20; incipi(ent) + -ency
Vocabulary lists containing incipiency
Example Sentences
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The American system of education, in its incipiency, and for a long while, was one founded on Bible-teaching and religious exercises.
From Public School Education by Michael Müller
Should it be permitted to come off unopposed in its incipiency, it would be all up with the men who had defended themselves so bravely thus far.
From The Land of Mystery by Edward Sylvester Ellis
Yet Cheltenham was not without generous partizans, but, as is common in the incipiency of opinion, they were at that time among that class who had fewest means.
From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by George Jacob Holyoake
It is not surprising, neither is he blameworthy, if in the incipiency of joy for freedom bestowed he could not properly estimate the factors necessary to form an homogenous citizenship.
From Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century by Booker T. Washington
Now, the condition of this mass implies a rotation about an imaginary axis—a rotation which, commencing with the absolute incipiency of the aggregation, has been ever since acquiring velocity.
From Eureka: A Prose Poem by Edgar A. Poe
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