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incipiency

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in·cip·i·ent  (n-sp-nt)
adj.
Beginning to exist or appear: detecting incipient tumors; an incipient personnel problem.
[Latin incipins, incipient-, present participle of incipere, to begin; see inception.]
in·cipi·en·cy, in·cipi·ence n.
in·cipi·ent·ly adv.
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Noun1.incipiency - beginning to exist or to be apparent; "he placed the incipience of democratic faith at around 1850"; "it is designed to arrest monopolies in their incipiency"
incipience
commencement, get-go, offset, outset, showtime, starting time, beginning, start, kickoff, first - the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the get-go that he was the man for her"
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html May 10, 1861 Semi-Weekly Dispatch (Franklin, Pennsylvania) "Southern Errors" The traitors of the South committed a very grave error, when, because a few northern office-holders held sympathy for them, in the incipiency [beginning] and even more progressive stages of the rebellion, they supposed the North could be divided against itself, and thus fall an easy prey to their rapacious [taking by force] villainy.
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would probably be able to help interpret some of the influences active in its incipiency, growth, and death".
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