Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A coming into being; a beginning: synonym: beginning.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Origination; birth; beginning; specifically, in phytogeography, the rise of a new plant formaation on an area destitute of floral covering.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
birth - noun
coming intobeing - noun
commencement orinception
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the event of being born
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Examples
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Little did they know in 1964, that the personal computer, still in its nascence, was about to make it even smaller.
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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
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In my pathetic nascence as a comedian, I allowed the audience to become the authority figure.
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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
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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
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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.
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New Cobley fiction, emerging from nascence into the cold hard glare of reality!
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New Cobley fiction, emerging from nascence into the cold hard glare of reality!
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New Cobley fiction, emerging from nascence into the cold hard glare of reality!
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New Cobley fiction, emerging from nascence into the cold hard glare of reality!
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