n. 开始(发端,初步,早期)

[ noun ]
beginning to exist or to be apparent
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he placed the incipience of democratic faith at around 1850it is designed to arrest monopolies in their incipiency

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