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beginning to exist or to be apparent
he placed the incipience of democratic faith at around 1850
it is designed to arrest monopolies in their incipiency
How To Use incipience In A Sentence
- The sky had lightened a little, but the air was heavy with the incipience of a storm. Black Blade
- It is almost the contrary: signification has its incipience in transcendence; transcendence is the intersubjective quality of sensibility. Emmanuel Levinas
- Her teenage daughter, Mandy Ashley Rickards, is autistic, and that incipience can give way to utter chaos without warning. 'Incendies' Burns With Mystery, Truth
- 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. Black Blade
- Distraction surely, incipience of the "final deliration" enters upon the poor old English Formulism that has called itself for some two centuries a Church. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I
- His vision is informed by the hope and joy, as well as the melancholia and uncertainty, of that period of incipience.
- 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. Harry Potter and the Fantastic Finale
- 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. Tender is the Night
- he placed the incipience of democratic faith at around 1850
- But also, from its incipience around 1968, liberation theology has been surrounded by controversy because of its often-unabashed association with Marxist analysis.