All 5 Uses of
incipient
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- His incipient friendship with her aunt had been nipped by the failure of his suit, and all that Oak learnt of Bathsheba's movements was done indirectly.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- But Boldwood grew hot down to his hands with an incipient jealousy; he trod for the first time the threshold of "the injured lover's hell."†
Chpt 16-18
- Hence, whilst he sometimes reached the brilliant in speech because that was spontaneous, he fell below the commonplace in action, from inability to guide incipient effort.†
Chpt 25-27
- "Pooh! that's nothing—that's nothing!" she exclaimed, in incipient accents of pique.†
Chpt 40-42
- And now, in the well-nigh congealed immobility of his frame could be discerned an incipient movement, as in the darkest night may be discerned light after a while.†
Chpt 43-45
Definition:
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(incipient) beginning to come into existence