Associations to the word «Incipiency»

Wiktionary

INCIPIENCY, noun. A state of nascency; a quality of incipience.

Dictionary definition

INCIPIENCY, noun. Beginning to exist or to be apparent; "he placed the incipience of democratic faith at around 1850"; "it is designed to arrest monopolies in their incipiency".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats