nascence

Little did they know in 1964, that the personal computer, still in its nascence, was about to make it even smaller.

Gerit Quealy: Windows on the World

The status of slaves, the political and social requirements of nobility, the draw of the Coliseum, and the cloaked nascence of Christianity are woven into the story seamlessly through the narration of Cecilia.

Nina Sankovitch: Feminist of Ancient Rome: Cecilia by Linda Ferri

In my pathetic nascence as a comedian, I allowed the audience to become the authority figure.

Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons

The fight against the 1971 bill developed during the nascence of the social right movement.

Marie Wilson: From Right to Wrong: Daycare, Abortion and a Health Care Bill with Women at the Center

In his essay Bérubé voices disappointment about Cultural Studies not living up to the promise many felt it harbored with its nascence in the later 1960s.

POETRY AND CULTURAL STUDIES: A READER, Eds. MARIA DAMON & IRA LIVINGSTON

The informal and individual nature of such taxonomies becomes obvious if we take a word like "person" and look at the philosophical problems that arise when it comes to nascence and sentience: many would not consider a human embryo a "person" until a certain stage of development; many would consider any sentient individual a person, regardless of humanity.

THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART THREE

New Cobley fiction, emerging from nascence into the cold hard glare of reality!

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It does a good enough job of chronicling the nascence and potentiality of a rock band and their big breakout performance, but Scott Westerfeld does it better in The Last Days and also makes me root for the characters.

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The book also documents the nascence of a great native talent.

Twain's American Journey

But aren't I a collection of atoms that never die, merely changing form and returning into the womb of nascence I once arose from?

On Divine Attention