inceptive

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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

All the attraction of her gorgeous habiliments, her warm assurance and her inceptive tenderness detached themselves from the general fusion and became distinct.

From The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt by Miller, Elizabeth

Yet as soon as we give the “durative” notion of being red an inceptive or transitional turn, we can avoid the parallel form “it becomes red, it turns red” and say “it reddens.”

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward

"Observe," said the Big Ape, "observe the inceptive harmony."

From The Story of a Child by Smith, Caroline F.