incipiency
Example Sentences
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The chief trouble is the lack of water for putting out a fire in its incipiency.
From A Woman's Impression of the Philippines by Mary Helen Fee
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
His physical strength and the influence of his personality were quickly used to check in incipiency any evidence of approaching disorder.
From Sergeant York And His People by Sam K. (Sam Kinkade) Cowan
The volunteer recruiting in Canada, in its incipiency, while resultful, was soon found to be not adequate.
From Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Kelly Miller
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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