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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The condition of being incipient; beginning; commencement.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Beginning; commencement; incipient state.

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  • noun A beginning, or first stage

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  • noun beginning to exist or to be apparent

Etymologies

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Latin incipientia.

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