| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | nas·cent |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  n s  nt, n snt |
| ADJECTIVE: | Coming into existence; emerging: “the moral shock of our nascent imperialism” (Richard Hofstadter). | | ETYMOLOGY: | Latin nsc ns, nscent-, present participle of nsc , to be born. See gen- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | nascen·cy —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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