From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishnascentnas‧cent /ˈnæsənt/ adjective [usually before noun] formal START TO HAPPEN, EXIST ETCcoming into existence or starting to develop the country’s nascent democracy their nascent industries
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nascent• The tribute may sound fulsome, but Modigliani showed exceptional appreciation of nascent ability.• A nascent nationalist movement is emerging in the Ukraine.• But this is not to dismiss his vision as an irrelevance in the forging of a nascent science.• In people who are not esoterically developed, the mental and emotional bodies are in a rudimentary or nascent state.• Delwyn Pepper, nascent tyrant, was voted treasurer.• This, the inquiry was told, was what happened to Britain's nascent wave energy programme in 1982.Origin nascent (1600-1700) Latin present participle of nasci “to be born” 