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Definition of nascent:

  • (adjective) being born or beginning | just coming into existence

Sentence Examples:

Indeed, these obsolete ideologies are themselves falling away as a new dynamic emerges from nascent political organism.

It in no way injures the nascent blossom or leaf, and is washed off in due course of time by the rain.

The banks in this distance became more elevated, and we appeared to be quitting the more nascent region.

Simmons' ribbons decking the pretty head in the village choir the Sunday after her return, and, spurred on by a nascent jealousy of the unknown, resolved to learn his fate without loss of time.

It is a step which exercises his nascent powers of observation and reflection very deeply, and gives him full occupation for quite a little interval of time.

Yet even then, in the very midst of her freezing misery, there was, although she had not yet begun to recognize it, a nascent comfort in that she had spoken and confessed.

Whereupon the whole world took on a new significance and splendor, as it needs must when nascent talent claims its own, asserts its dawning right to dominion and to freedom.

And her manner had subtly changed, too; she was beginning to show an individuality that wasn't without a nascent fascination.

Its first meaning to the nascent eyes of men, and its continued influence over degraded races, are subjects of the most fearful mystery.

Russell's statement with regard to the desire so frequently expressed in 1861 for one of the English princes to come and reign over a nascent Confederacy.

What if the man's established interest in this direction were to suppress his nascent interest in Clarice!

In Diana's face there was something which, for the first time, roused in the other a nascent sense of shame.

Here she was, a woman of high education, and much wealth, in the midst of this nascent community.

In fact, in all appearances, as far as observed, it obeys the laws to which every nascent faculty is subject.

As to that "mother," it is conjectured by himself and colleagues to be a "now extinct tongue, spoken probably by the nascent Aryan race."

Hence, Theosophy and Theosophists have existed ever since the first glimmering of nascent thought made man seek instinctively for the means of expressing his own independent opinions.

Here appears nascent the doctrine of 'elevating the Fathers,' which is expressly taught in the next era.

The concept of divinity arose out of the feeling of divinity, and the feeling of divinity is simply the dim and nascent feeling of personality vented upon the outside world.

The child is a natural pagan, and often the first appeal to its nascent spiritual faculty is best made through its instinctive joy in the life of animals and flowers, the clouds and the winds.

The nascent republic might, at the period in question, have adopted as its motto, "Liberty and Equality," with the utmost propriety; for all enjoyed equal liberty, and nearly equal fortunes.

The simplest sensation involves an unconscious or nascent operation of the mind; it implies objects of sense, and objects of sense have differences of form, number, color.

And therefore the description which has been already given of the nascent power of the faculties is in reality an anticipation.

In many cases, indeed, as, for example, in looking at a reflection in a mirror, the illusion is very imperfect, remaining in the nascent stage.

In many cases, however, an imaginative mind appears to be capable of transforming a vivid expectation into a nascent stage of sensation.

These substances and gases being given off in a nascent condition, at once enter into new combinations with anything in the vicinity with which they have a chemical affinity.

The utmost care is now required to nurse, foster, multiply and coordinate these nascent institutions and activities.

On another table were heaped portfolios, minutes, projects, specifications, and all the thousand memoranda brought to bear upon a man into whose funds, so many nascent industries sought to dip.

To express this fact elements at the instant of liberation are said to be in the nascent state.

The catalytic action seems to be in part connected with the property of absorbing gases and rendering them nascent.

On the theory of Natural Selection there is a wide distinction between Rudimentary Organs and what you call germs of organs, and what I call in my bigger book "nascent" organs.

A nascent organ, though little developed, as it has to be developed must be useful in every stage of development.

Analogy thus often serves as a guide in distinguishing whether an organ is rudimentary or nascent.

This nascent captain had not lived at the provincial court of Velasquez without impressing his characteristics upon those with whom he came in contact.

Then in comes this War Office cable to crush our nascent industry and give us in exchange some pious aspirations.

"In a style that is strong and broad, the author of this timely novel takes up a nascent period of our national history and founds upon it a story of absorbing interest."

Perhaps it would not then be impossible to meet a child running with sparkling eyes to write a letter, or walking and meditating as he cultivates a nascent inspiration.

The impulses which it obeys are all new; and it obeys them with its own nascent plasticity of temper.

I once endeavored to visualize Fame and the resultant picture was that of a huge room filled with pretty women, all of whom watched me with the fixed gaze of nascent love.

Their development depends on their union with other partially developed or nascent cells which precede them in the regular course of growth.

They let him sleep late; and he had a dream of himself, which must have been caused by the nascent consciousness of the going and coming around him.

He returned to his paper; but again his wife's nascent will to live asserted itself, to no one's astonishment more than to her own.

The nascent order once too weak to be conscious of need of expression, or capable of it if it were, becomes conscious now and finds a voice.

Bent only on beautiful slaves, perfumes and luxuries, they sacrificed their nascent influence to their passion for pleasure.

The train gave its first jerk, a faint backward jerk, indicative of the nascent intention of starting.

The imaginative interest now felt in times of nascent and immature civilization all tells in favor of Homer and against Virgil.

To the embryo falls the desperate duty, which shows no mercy to the nascent flesh; to the adult insect the joy of resting in the sun.

Already it was a nascent ball of fire in the east, promising to bake the asphalt of the square by noon.

A nascent colony was neglected till it asserted itself and appeared already mature on the political horizon.

At first the sensations are interpreted directly, and the impression upon baby's nascent intelligence is a gross error.

There is but one conclusion to be drawn from Paul's account of this famous dispute, the settlement of which determined the fortunes of the nascent religion.

This invention of spoken language, the first invention of nascent humanity, remains to this day its most fruitful invention.

Rudimentary organs must be distinguished from those that are nascent; though in some cases the distinction is not easy.

At first, indeed, it seemed as though the nascent states were about to be dissolved by disruption from within and attacks from without.

As we grew up, our nascent intellect received still more supernatural services from the legendary lore of Lizzy.

She gave me a glance of nascent curiosity, and asked me to pour some boiling water in a bowl.

America was a land of misty and stormy morning, struck by the fierce and fugitive fires of intermittent war and nascent freedom.

A glow of admiration, almost of affection, towards the curious lines, full of nascent genius, lit slowly in me.

He may be said to have formed it by meditating on the Roman historians, and by comparing Italy with the nascent modern nations.

Then and there Johnnie made a resolution, one which had been nascent in his mind for many hours.

He lived in stirring times, when the nascent elements of constitutional government were in process of crystallization.

I wish I could give every word he said to me; he struck out image after image to my nascent intelligence, with swift broken fragments of speech.

In this state it was we drifted in the most accidental way against some other blindly seeking creature, and linked like nascent atoms.

By a continuance of the process, the nascent life displayed became gradually more pronounced.

At any rate, their knowledge, in some points, was in advance of the nascent faith of the disciples.

Whatever else, however, was to be seen at so low and nascent a point, the mosquito as night came on, soon convinced us that he was the true magnate of those dominions.

Helena and Ascension would, if prolonged, intersect this slowly nascent focus of volcanic action.

Courses of study and plans of instruction should be prepared in such a way that the different phases of work included may be presented and stressed while the nascent period of interest is on.

Under this call from life nascent feelings grew to birth and suppressed impulses struggled for liberty and for power.

This ancient friendship enabled Barnabas to pursue the Apostle with those offices of consolation which his nascent faith demanded.

The knowledge and use of bronze communicated a strong impulse to nascent civilization, and was the means of founding the first human communities.

She was full of the flame and pulse of youth, of a new nascent tenderness and a warm sense of loving all the world.

It was thought that he had spoken to me for a long time, and the rumor spread of my nascent favor.

The most important of the surgical writings of the time, put in type during the great nascent period of printing at the Renaissance, have come down to us.

Perhaps this phenomenon should be attributed rather to nascent life than to life extinct, to that first living fermentation in which the lowest microscopic organizations develop themselves.

Many of the acknowledged leaders of the nascent nation were Southerners, and their pronunciation, as well as their phrases, must have become familiar everywhere.

And the argument of their having been transported on cakes of ice, in the nascent periods of the globe, is rendered stronger by these appearances than any geological proofs which I have yet seen.

Already its nascent leaves are seen arranged under the perfect law of resilience, preparing for stoutest work on the right side.

The nascent and adolescent Orator is molded to the power of the word by the greatest masters of the word, the Poets!

Was he to be a means of solving the nascent Anglo-German rivalry by suggesting a combination of effort in Colonization?

In all these there were nascent movements in the direction of literature manifested in the establishment of libraries as well as in the development of learning.

For if we may thus infer a certain increase in the longevity of the nascent race at even so early a stage in evolution, then that evidently entails a more prolonged infancy.

It is probable that, in the new experiment, success was rendered possible by the rise of new powers in nascent man.

The idea of property was slowly formed in the human mind, remaining nascent and feeble through immense periods of time.

For, as stated in a mid-year announcement of the Survey, we have been studying the community at a time when nascent social forces are asserting themselves.

Moreover, it is worthy of remark that the problems he handled were all nascent at the time he worked upon them.

He was a Philosophical Biologist in the new and nascent sense of the middle period of the nineteenth century.

They bought the risky long-term bonds of the nascent state, which was constantly fighting for its life (and they did an excellent business in hindsight).

With a view to more careful examination of the nascent states of silica, I have made no allusion in this volume to the influence of mere segregation, as connected with the crystalline power.

However, I was too much frightened by the episode of the check to say anything of my nascent suspicions to Charles.

Shocked surprise, a nascent anger, a vague alarm, an insistent curiosity, urged him nearer.

Yet, when he said that, consciousness of the truth had been very dim and faint in him, just nascent perhaps, but unable to assert itself against things stronger in his soul.

From this time begins the history of "Castle Dangerous," as we may term this period of the nascent city, now commencing, when there began a constant struggle with the daily risks of life.

The trees, even though the foliage is not quite so dense in the autumn, afford such delicious shade for the reveries of nascent love!

The loops may be nascent, invaded or crested, and may contain either a single or several rods, as they are called.

The individual had to submit to the desire of the majority and to conform to nascent codes of morality.

The annual competition for the English Prize Poem afforded another opportunity for nascent ambition.

In the brilliant circles of the nascent empire of Napoleon he was distinguished by his elegance and his popular manners.

And once again some nascent sense within me seemed to become aware of another human being somewhere moving in the woods outside our fire.

This important test depends upon the action of nascent oxygen; hence any substance which yields oxygen will give the colors more or less satisfactorily.

In the nascent state we have hydrogen which is not in a gaseous state, and its action is then much more energetic.