incipience , also: incipiency

All night there had been brooding horror, the incipience of death.

Their sensations were such as might mark the incipience of delirium.

The sky had lightened a little, but the air was heavy with the incipience of a storm.

In the incipience of his climax he had misinterpreted that slight resistance.

Stile felt his heartbeat and respiratory rate increase with the incipience of this effort.

Heem felt his own mortality, the incipience and inevitability of death.

The sky could no longer be seen and the air had grown heavy and dank as if with the incipience of a storm.

He sniffed once: the incipience of rain.

He was immediately sure that it heralded the incipience of the madness which already held two of the older servants in its grip.

It was the time- piece that marked the incipience of the Final War that would destroy mankind on Earth.

It contained the track "Incipience: Beowulf Defeats Grendel", part one of a trilogy centred around the Beowulf legend.

The Third Edition is called the "Extended Edition," and includes an Appendix entitled, "Incipience, Course and Character of the Boll Movement."

Maia's childhood performance in 1947 Earth not only left a lasting impression on her but was the incipience of her desire to set foot into the world of drama, modelling, acting and performance.

She wished to do this for she sensed dimly yet deeply the incipience of a personal tragedy infinitely more terrifying than the Kai-feng, to which she was now as indifferent as all the other outside elements of life.

Since their work, investigations chiefly undertaken by scholars from the New World Archaeological Foundation on the southern Pacific coast of Mexico have greatly altered this view, deepening in time the incipience of complex social and cultural events in Mesoamerica.

In other words: as the incipience of the Modern Era roughly falls at the incipience of the global sovereignty of Europe, thus the end of the Modern Era coincides with the end of this rule.