inchoation
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun The act of beginning; inception; rudimentary state.
Examples
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Each advance in human knowledge should then be an infinitesimal approach towards the supreme comprehension; and the aspiring race of man is justified in that inchoation of long hope which is folly to the single life.
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True, there was a little stir -- a little abiding of shepherds in the fields, keeping watch over their flocks by night -- a little buzzing in knots of men waiting to be hired before the daybreak -- a little stealthy movement as of a burglar or two here and there -- an inchoation of life.
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They could be met at the fashionable summer resorts; they were effulgent on first nights; they were familiar in Kearney Street on other afternoons than Saturday, and their little world was gay in its way; but Society, that exclusive body which owned its inchoation and later its vitality and coherence to that brilliant and elegant little band of women who came, capable and experienced, to the fevered ragged city of the early Fifties, still struggled in the Eighties to preserve its traditions, and did not admit the existence of these people; feminine curiosity was not even roused to the point of discussion.
Note
The word 'inchoation' comes from a Latin word meaning 'to begin'.
