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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
nascent
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A nascent nationalist movement is emerging in the Ukraine.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But this is not to dismiss his vision as an irrelevance in the forging of a nascent science.
▪ Delwyn Pepper, nascent tyrant, was voted treasurer.
▪ In people who are not esoterically developed, the mental and emotional bodies are in a rudimentary or nascent state.
▪ The tribute may sound fulsome, but Modigliani showed exceptional appreciation of nascent ability.
▪ This, the inquiry was told, was what happened to Britain's nascent wave energy programme in 1982.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nascent

Nascent \Nas"cent\, a. [L. nascens, -entis, p. pr. nasci to be born. See Nation, and cf. Naissant.]

  1. Commencing, or in process of development; beginning to exist or to grow; coming into being; as, a nascent germ.

    Nascent passions and anxieties.
    --Berkley.

  2. (Chem.) Evolving; being evolved or produced; as, nascent oxygen.

    Nascent state (Chem.), the fleeting or momentary state of an uncombined atom or radical just separated from one compound, and not yet united with another, -- a hypothetical condition implying peculiarly active chemical properties; as, hydrogen in the nascent state is a strong reducer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
nascent

1620s, from Latin nascentem (nominative nascens) "arising young, immature," present participle of nasci "to be born" (Old Latin gnasci; see genus). Related: Nascence (1560s); nascency.

Wiktionary
nascent

a. emerging; just coming into existence.

WordNet
nascent

adj. coming into existence; "a nascent republic" [syn: emergent, emerging]

Wikipedia
Nascent

Nascent may refer to:

  • Nascent life formed from conception to birth
  • Nascent hydrogen
  • Nascent market
  • Nascent-polypeptide-associated complex alpha polypeptide, a human gene
  • Nascentes do Rio Parnaíba National Park, a national park of Brazil

Usage examples of "nascent".

It seems likely that messianism formed the principal medium through which angelology impinged on nascent Christology, and that Christ, precisely as messiah, was envisaged as an angel-like spiritual being.

The nascent world of cyberspace is full of sysadmins, teachers, trainers, cybrarians, netgurus, and various species of cybernetic activists.

By forcibly feminizing him, she hopes to show that she is more powerful than he, and that she can wreak havoc on his nascent masculinity anytime she pleases.

FCC 651919, under the auspices of the Society for the Conversion of Extraterrestrial Nascent Totalitarianisms, calling Maxima Control.

The ascending movement of her arms at the moment she missed the projectile, although it had the added advantage of pushing forward the two ochraceous globes constituting an already more than nascent bosom, was principally accompanied by a smile at once amused and disconsolate, ultimately replete with an intense joie de vivre, which she was manifestly directing at all the adolescent males passing within a radius of fifty metres.

Arcturus: of the precession of equinoxes: of Orion with belt and sextuple sun theta and nebula in which 100 of our solar systems could be contained: of moribund and of nascent new stars such as Nova in 1901: of our system plunging towards the constellation of Hercules: of the parallax or parallactic drift of socalled fixed stars, in reality evermoving wanderers from immeasurably remote eons to infinitely remote futures in comparison with which the years, threescore and ten, of allotted human life formed a parenthesis of infinitesimal brevity.

Gippius spat out a line of Pushkin to demonstrate the false spondee in iambic verse, his outworn prosodic terms failed to arouse the nascent poet in his class.

Nay, it should be realized by every judicious promoter of the Faith that at such an early stage in the evolution and crystallization of the Cause such discriminating and precautionary measures are inevitable and even necessary if the nascent institutions of the Faith are to emerge triumphant and unimpaired from the present welter of confused and often conflicting interests with which they are surrounded.

For the Mormon pioneers the most important features of the topography were the natural barriers that Brigham Young felt would protect their nascent state of Deseret from the influence of belligerent, unholy gentiles.

The groups often apply new technological combinations to nascent markets that are being neglected by the large companies.

France out of that narrow Atlantic-coast strip but that put her in a position to become the power that should in a very true sense force the jealous, many-minded colonies of that strip into a union, make possible the erection of that feeble union into a nascent nation, give it, though under certain compulsion, territory to become a world-power, and finally furnish it, if grudgingly, with a great western, overmountain domain in which to develop a democratic and a nationalistic spirit strong enough to hold a continent-wide people in one republic.

The implementation details are not currently accessible to us, but we believe this is a stalking-horse for requiring chip manufacturers to incorporate on-die FPGAs in the one million gate range, re-configurable in software, initially laid out as DRM circuitry but reprogrammable in support of their nascent War on Un-Americanism.

Saving nascent intelligences had been forbidden since the Seyferts, the exploding galaxies.

She was certain she could already feel a nascent corn on her baby toe, which was being squished hideously into the triangular toepiece of the shoes.

The rise of the World Administrative Center of their Faith, within the precincts and under the shadow of its World Spiritual Center, a process that has been kept in abeyance for well nigh thirty years, whilst the machinery of the national and local institutions of a nascent Order was being erected and perfected, presents them with an opportunity which, as the champion-builders of that Order and the torchbearers of an as yet unborn civilization, they must seize with alacrity, resolution and utter consecration.