incipiency

Example Sentences

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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 Miller, Kelly

I want to talk to you directly about our mission work, giving a historical sketch of the Christian Woman's Board of Missions from its incipiency to the present time.

From The Story of a Life by Ellis, J. Breckenridge (John Breckenridge)

He might have put an end to the enterprise in its very incipiency, but he did not.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various

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 Washington, Booker T.

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 Holyoake, George Jacob