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inchoate

Incomplete, impartial, not completed. Inchoate property rights include mechanics' and materialmen's liens,which come into possibility when work is commenced on a property but might never ripen into actual existence if all bills are paid for the work.

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Then Harry "[shakes] his head at the wonder of it and cursed from the very inchoateness of the terrible unnamed feeling," leaving the reader and Percival to question whether this feeling is tied to the fact that Lance is a young knight or possibly the son of this man (p.
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The need for further study, however, by no means diminishes the value of this chapter, but demonstrates the inchoateness of Persian historiographical studies.
Historical Writing During the Reign of Shah Abbas: Ideology, Imitation, and Legitimacy in Safavid Chronicles. (Reviews of Books)
One might expect here a degree of inchoateness or inconclusion, a sense of the "excess," of the difficulty of "phrasing" of the Shoah (Friedlander, "Trauma, Memory" 262).
Narration and the embodiment of power in 'Schindler's List.'
A NOTE ON SOLICITATION, COMPLICITY, AND INCHOATENESS
Mens rea and inchoate crimes
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