Meaning & use
Incipience
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The state or fact of just beginning to exist or develop; an initial or early stage.
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The disease was caught in its incipience, before symptoms had fully appeared.
Even in its incipience, the movement showed signs of lasting influence.
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Related to the more common adjective 'incipient', meaning beginning to happen or develop.
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