17 June 2018
nascent
[nas-uh nt, ney-suh nt]
adjective
1. beginning to exist or develop:
That nascent republic is holding its first election this month.
2. Chemistry. (of an element) in the nascent state.
Origin of nascent
Latin
1615-1625; < Latin nāscent- (stem of nāscēns), present participle of nāscī to be born, arise, equivalent to nā(tus) born (variant of gnātus) + -sc- inchoative suffix + -ent- -ent
Related forms
nascence, nascency, noun
unnascent, adjective
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Contemporary Examples
As a nascent sound engineer, Brinsley “tried the best he could.”
Alleged Cop Killer’s Blood-Soaked Screenplay
M.L. Nestel
December 24, 2014
But in dethroning, or even denting, Cuomo, this nascent movement is facing its greatest test.
Can New York Democrat Zephyr Teachout Stop Governor Andrew Cuomo?
David Freedlander
August 18, 2014
What are the next steps and goals for this nascent movement?
The Buddhist Punk Reforming Drug Rehab
Stephen Krcmar
June 16, 2014
This toll was particularly painful for the nascent life insurance industry.
When TB Was a Death Sentence: An Excerpt From ‘The Remedy’
Thomas Goetz
April 16, 2014
However, one nascent winner has been the rise of crowdsourced fractional labor.
Is Crowdsourced Labor the Future of Middle Class Employment?
Sarah Kunst
March 26, 2014
Historical Examples
The mystery indeed in which her nascent love had wrapped him had dropped away.
The Coryston Family
Mrs. Humphry Ward
Freneau succeeded admirably in voicing the opinions of the nascent party.
Union and Democracy
Allen Johnson
All his nascent intellectual powers were alive and clamorous.
Robert Elsmere
Mrs. Humphry Ward
And it is his own hand which has done most to break the nascent slowly-forming tie.
Robert Elsmere
Mrs. Humphry Ward
The impulses which it obeys are all new; and it obeys them with its own nascent plasticity of temper.
Ariadne Florentina
John Ruskin
Today’s quote
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
– Richard Feynman
On this day
17 June 1631 – Mumtaz Mahal dies in childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I undertakes to build a mausoleum, the Taj Mahal, in her honour. He takes 17 years to do it.
17 June 1958 – birth of Jello Biafra (born Eric Reed Boucher), American musician and spoken word artist, was lead singer of the San Francisco punk rock band, Dead Kennedys.
17 June 1971 – US President Richard Nixon declares a War on Drugs.