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Definition of Nascencies
1. nascency [n] - See also: nascency
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nascencies
Literary usage of Nascencies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. From Fundamental to Accessory in the Development of the Nervous System and by Frederic Lister Burk (1898)
"Thus it certainly may be said that in infancy the nascencies of the lower level
outnumber those of the middle and higher, that in childhood up to puberty ..."
2. Education by Plays and Games by George Ellsworth Johnson (1907)
"... nevertheless, we may regard the period of infancy as one of predominating
nascencies of the oldest fundamental activities largely in control of the ..."
3. An Introduction to Child-study by William Blackley Drummond (1908)
"periods, a more detailed knowledge of the various nascencies must be based upon
... The nascencies of the various functions are indicated by the appearance ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1908)
"Is 'imageless thought,' Bewusstseinslage, a complex of residua of images of the
higher senses, of organic nascencies, of verbal short-cuts, ..."
5. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1918)
"... whereof the objects are as yet unnamed, mere nascencies o cognition, premonitions,
awarenesses of direction, an' thoughts tut ..."
6. The Normal Child and Primary Education by Beatrice Chandler Gesell, Arnold Gesell (1912)
"... nascencies, or unconscious impulses, the prehuman features of its development.
G. Stanley Hall is at once the foremost leader of genetic psychology and ..."
7. American Physical Education Review by American Physical Education Association (1902)
"The second group is characterized by the nascencies of the higher functions of
the sense organs, beginning about the second year and coming to a ripened but ..."
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