inceptive
Example Sentences
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Particularly in the playing of Miss Johns one seems to see the gathering nebula of an inceptive star.
From Time Magazine Archive
"One is at once impressed," admits Psychologist Seashore, "with the appalling task which this inceptive science has assumed for itself, and how undeveloped the work is within this field."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Author would here mark his indebtedness to Dr. Joseph A. Seiss, and Dr. Campbell Morgan, for the inceptive thoughts re Judas Iscariot, and The Antichrist.
From The Mark of the Beast by Sidney Watson
"Observe," said the Big Ape, "observe the inceptive harmony."
From The Story of a Child by Caroline F. Smith
The municipal preemptors contend that the same rules of equal right, inceptive and progressive, in these respects, apply to both classes of preemptors.
From Minnesota and Dacotah by C. C. (Christopher Columbus) Andrews
