incipiency
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To evolve the silk glands would have required, as for most other organs, a long period of incipiency, during which they would have been useless.
From Evolution An Investigation and a Critique by Graebner, Theodore
Treatment.—No effective method is as yet known which will control this condition during its incipiency.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor
The "farmers' movement" is in its incipiency; it maybe said to be now only preparing for action, and it is yet too soon to look for united effort.
From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.
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
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
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