incipiency

Example Sentences

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I rejoice, dear sir, that I have some connection with this honorable movement in its incipiency.

From The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War by Wilson, Joseph T. (Joseph Thomas)

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 Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

Every phase of the malady as it formerly existed is depicted, as also the discoveries and incidents attending its detection and cure in its incipiency.

From Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah by Lumley, Benjamin

Not sinless was this society at its incipiency.

From The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains by Hough, Emerson

As the days passed and my thoughts became confusedly spread over the whole question from its incipiency, it proved to be not an easy task but a most difficult one.

From Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences by Daughters of the American Revolution. Nebraska