incipience
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Our author, as we see, begins his above quoted deliverance quite at a loss with regard to the agency to which the incipience, growth, and fructification of man's faculties should be attributed.
From West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas by J. J. (John Jacob) Thomas
The scene in which I am stranded is picked out in sketchy incipience around me.
From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Fitzwater Wray
H. J. Boulton; but Dundurn never advanced beyond incipience.
From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding
And we could follow each curve of sound from its incipience to its final crash in the trenches.
From Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort by Edith Wharton
Distraction surely, incipience of the "final deliration" enters upon the poor old English Formulism that has called itself for some two centuries a Church.
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I by Thomas Carlyle
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