What is "incipience"

Usage examples of "incipience".

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

Through the windows, he had seen sunlight streaking the Georgica Pond - the name a deliberate understatement typical of the local gentry, it being more the size of a lake - like pigment upon a painter's brush: there was a sense about the light of incipience, of colour that was not yet vivid, of an idea not yet formed.

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

I gathered that she might be trying to understand, and cope with, unusual things which had occurred in her body, perhaps for the first time, things which, even in their incipience, even in the first and most inchoate forms, had profoundly stirred her, things which had perhaps hinted at profound latencies of scarcely suspected feelings, and had, perhaps to her dismay or terror, suggested to her what might be done to her, what she could, if a man wished, be made to feel.

The skies turned from dirty grey to brown with the incipience of storms.

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