inchoation

[ in-koh-ey-shuhn ]

noun

1. a beginning; origin.

Word History and Origins

Origin of inchoation¹

First recorded in 1520–30, inchoation is from the Late Latin word inchoātiōn- (stem of inchoātiō ). See inchoate, -ion

Example Sentences

Thus, according to this opinion, man is the only type of animal life; and every inferior species is but an imitation, more or less perfect, of the same; an inchoation stopped in its course at a greater or shorter distance from the term to which the work of nature tends in its organization of the human embryo.

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If to reach to the perfection required by its independent existence it needs development, every step in that journey is an inchoation of the next, and cannot exist but as such.

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Sir, I Amend to no purpose, nor have any use of this inchoation of health, which I finde, except I preserve my roome, and station in you.

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The Religion of Nature is a mere inchoation, and needs a complement,—it can have but one complement, and that very complement is Christianity.

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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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