incipiency
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Thus a permanent garrison was located which assured the submission of the neighboring countries and arrested in its incipiency every attempt at revolt.
From Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic by Andrew Stephenson
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
Yet this conceit in its incipiency, he knew not how to account for.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
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
In order to make the theory of water erosion tenable it is assumed that the Colorado river started in its incipiency like any other river.
From Arizona Sketches by J. A. (Joseph Amasa) Munk
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