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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. beginning to exist or to be apparent;
- Example: "he placed the incipience of democratic faith at around 1850"
- Example: "it is designed to arrest monopolies in their incipiency"
[syn: incipiency, incipience]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Incipience \In*cip"i*ence\, Incipiency \In*cip"i*en*cy\, n. [L. incipientia.] Beginning; commencement; incipient state. [1913 Webster]