incipience
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun The condition of being incipient; beginning; commencement.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- noun A beginning, or first stage
Examples
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The original score, all a-throb with scary incipience, was composed by David Wingo.
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In contrast to part 1, which was a ponderous exercise in stage-setting and dramatic incipience, this film, directed by David Yates and adapted by Steve Kloves, is a climax worthy of the term.
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He made Kaethe Gregorovius feel charming, meanwhile becoming increasingly restless at the all-pervading cauliflower — simultaneously hating himself too for this incipience of he knew not what superficiality.
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Through the windows, he had seen sunlight streaking the Georgica Pond - the name a deliberate understatement typical of the local gentry, it being more the size of a lake - like pigment upon a painter's brush: there was a sense about the light of incipience, of colour that was not yet vivid, of an idea not yet formed.
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Some of us, the weak of heart, even think that it is too interesting, especially when they consider other developments, such as the incipience of the nuclear era and its terrifying consequence, the threat of the Atom Bomb and of the Hydrogen Bomb.
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Whence it is a slopperish matter, given the wet and low visibility (since in this scherzarade of one’s thousand one nightinesses that sword of certainty which would indentifide the body never falls) to idendifine the individuone in scratch wig, squarecuts, stock lavaleer, regattable oxeter, baggy pants and shufflers (he is often alluded to as Slypatrick, the llad in the llane) with already an incipience (lust!) in the direction of area baldness
Note
The word 'incipience' comes ultimately from a Latin word meaning 'beginning'.
