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Definition of Inchoately
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inchoately
Literary usage of Inchoately
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Reports in Law and Equity: Containing Reports of Cases in the House by Edmund Hatch Bennett, Chauncey Smith, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain Courts (1852)
"They never had a vested interest under that limitation, inasmuch as the very
subject of the settlement was necessarily a thing only existing inchoately, ..."
2. The Law Journal for the Year 1832-1949: Comprising Reports of Cases in the (1852)
"They never had a vested interest under that limitation, inasmuch as the very
subject of the settlement was necessarily a thing only existing inchoately ..."
3. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1908)
"The contiguous territory had been regarded as being inchoately a part of the
body-politic of the American nation, and had been administered by the nation, ..."
4. The Mediaeval Mind: A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in by Henry Osborn Taylor (1919)
"... strainings of the spirit, or again in the opposition between inchoately variant
ideals and the endeavour for their more inclusive reconcilement. ..."
5. The Agrarian Crusade: A Chronicle of the Farmer in Politics by Solon Justus Buck (1920)
"... sentiments of that convention, which felt inchoately what it desired but which
still needed a leader to voice its aspirations. ..."
6. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"To INCHOATE, (in'-ko-ate) ». a. To begin ; to commence. inchoately, (in'-ko-ate-le)
ad. In an incipient decree. ..."
7. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by William Carew Hazlitt, Robert Dodsley (1875)
"... my sin is but inchoately perfect; And I, though in a fault, did not offend;
And that for three reasons. First, I did yield Only a kind of unwilling ..."
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