nascence

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nascence

/ˈneɪ.səns/ UK, US

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Adapted borrowing of Latin nāscentia + -ence, from nāscentem (“arising young, immature”), present participle of nāscī (“to be born”) (Old Latin gnāscī; see genus). Doublet of nascency.

noun nascences

countable, rare, uncountable Birth. He had discerned that I was with child. He was a physician first. When he came around offering to see me through my baby's nascence, Mother so thoroughly scolded him for his audacity that he was again left speechless. "I will see to the birth ..."
countable, uncountable Coming into being; inception, beginning. Careful examination of Romaine's prophecy reveals the operative nature of the Kongolese religious habitus in the nascence of Haitian Vodou, a religion that truly began to crystallize during the Revolution.

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@misc{nascence_2026,
  title = {nascence},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/nascence},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}