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Examples of incipience in a Sentence
since its incipience, the show has been on the cutting edge of comedy
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Eleemosynary deeds have their incipience domestically.
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Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Oct. 2021
Yet this modest drama invokes the power of incipience—fear of what will happen next—and amplifies it with lean writing in the service of flawless acting.
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Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 15 Mar. 2018
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Word History
First Known Use
circa 1864, in the meaning defined above
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“Incipience.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incipience. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
Medical Definition
incipience
noun
in·cip·i·ence
in-ˈsip-ē-ən(t)s
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