incipiency
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The American system of education, in its incipiency, and for a long while, was one founded on Bible-teaching and religious exercises.
From Public School Education by Müller, Michael
To evolve the silk glands would have required, as for most other organs, a long period of incipiency, during which they would have been useless.
From Evolution An Investigation and a Critique by Graebner, Theodore
As the days passed and my thoughts became confusedly spread over the whole question from its incipiency, it proved to be not an easy task but a most difficult one.
From Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences by Daughters of the American Revolution. Nebraska
If diagnosed during its incipiency, remedial measures such as are usually employed to treat sprains, are indicated and later the parts should be blistered.
From Lameness of the Horse Veterinary Practitioners' Series, No. 1 by Lacroix, John Victor
The chief trouble is the lack of water for putting out a fire in its incipiency.
From A Woman's Impression of the Philippines by Fee, Mary Helen
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