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

Yet this conceit in its incipiency, he knew not how to account for.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

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)

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 condition of this mass implies a rotation about an imaginary axis—a rotation which, commencing with the absolute incipiency of the aggregation, has been ever since acquiring velocity.

From Eureka: A Prose Poem by Poe, Edgar A.