incipience

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The scene in which I am stranded is picked out in sketchy incipience around me.

From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Wray, Fitzwater

H. J. Boulton; but Dundurn never advanced beyond incipience.

From Toronto of Old by Scadding, Henry

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 Carlyle, Thomas

He has no ray, no incipience of faculty beyond this.

From On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by Ruskin, John

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 Wharton, Edith