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incipiency

[in-sip-ee-uhn-see] / ɪnˈsɪp i ən si /


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Those who supported the idea in its incipiency always urged the necessity of employing Negroes in the army.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 by Various

He traces her malady from its incipiency, through the successive disquieting manifestations of hysteria, melancholia, and fury, broken by periods of partial and even complete mental lucidity.

From De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2) The Eight Decades of Peter Martyr D'Anghera by Francis Augustus MacNutt

Every phase of the malady as it formerly existed is depicted, as also the discoveries and incidents attending its detection and cure in its incipiency.

From Another World Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah by Benjamin Lumley

The volunteer recruiting in Canada, in its incipiency, while resultful, was soon found to be not adequate.

From Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Kelly Miller

Yet Cheltenham was not without generous partizans, but, as is common in the incipiency of opinion, they were at that time among that class who had fewest means.

From The History Of The Last Trial By Jury For Atheism In England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy by George Jacob Holyoake




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