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In an initial stage; beginning, starting, coming into existence. quotations examples
How many more places might have been distributed by her incipient majesty it is impossible to say, for the thread of her meditation was broken by the sudden termination of the path.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), page 141
It may even be that because of incipient satiation, the shares of the marginal dollar display consumption propensities that are the reverse of the ones exhibited by the average dollar.
1995, Andreu Mas-Colell, Michael D. Whinston, and Jerry R. Green, Microeconomic Theory, Oxford University Press, page 115
Aislyn presses back against her house’s front door, panting a little with an incipient panic attack.
2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 405
plural incipients
(obsolete) A beginner.
(grammar) A verb tense of the Hebrew language. examples