incipience

• I believe we are witnessing the incipience of a convergence of economic and ecological repercussions of actions that have been steered by power desideratum for way too long. —  Countercurrents.org
• Oblivious to the trends creeping through our nation, to the incipience of Islam within our shores, to the decay and decline within The Church Of England and to the corruption of both the political system in general and the big three political parties in particular. —  The British National Party
• Universal benefits have, since the incipience of New Labour, been presented as the great big, pricey but affordable silver bullet of modern governance, the apolitical conclusion to decades spent discovering the limitations of means-testing. —  The Guardian World News
• To read fully as an adult must be -- I believe -- to relive something of that wondrous childhood incipience tempered with the adult's chastened backward vision —  quotidian
• The pain in his head had given place to a strange sense of dilation, and there was a silent, confused riot in his fevered brain, which seemed to him like the incipience of insanity. —  Stories of Mystery

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