incipiency

Let us suppose this to be the incipiency of the paroxysm, or the early part of the cold stage.

The "farmers' movement" is in its incipiency; it maybe said to be now only preparing for action, and it is yet too soon to look for united effort.

If this abolition movement is not stopped in its incipiency, it will soon get beyond all control.

I want to talk to you directly about our mission work, giving a historical sketch of the Christian Woman's Board of Missions from its incipiency to the present time.

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.