Literary notes about inchoate (AI summary)
The word "inchoate" in literature is often employed to evoke a sense of something nascent, unformed, and in a state of becoming. Writers use it to describe early, embryonic stages—whether referring to the scattering of vague emotions ([1], [2]), the initial stirrings of ideas and desires that hint at future development ([3], [4], [5]), or even incomplete social and political formations ([6], [7]). It also enriches descriptions of chaotic or amorphous states, whether in natural elements or human experiences ([8], [9], [10]), suggesting both a fragile potential and an underlying dynamic process that has yet to be fully realized.
- And immediately his whole soul was crying in a mad, inchoate hatred against this violation of himself.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence - He still remained motionless, seething with inchoate rage, when his whole nature seemed to disintegrate.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence - A desire appears to be an inchoate volition—that which, if ripened successfully and not nipped in the bud, would become a volition.
— from A Handbook of Ethical Theory by George Stuart Fullerton - The mere word musician called up in him an inchoate longing, a desire for something far and undefined.
— from The Happy End by Joseph Hergesheimer - At this thought, something perfectly inchoate, which she did not recognize, began clawing at her.
— from The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield Fisher - When the Constitution was adopted, the territories were recognized as incipient or inchoate States.
— from The Relations of the Federal Government to SlaveryDelivered at Fort Wayne, Ind., October 30th 1860 by Joseph K. (Joseph Ketchum) Edgerton - Left to either alone, the people would have only an incomplete, an initial, or inchoate government.
— from The American Republic: Its Constitution, Tendencies, and Destiny by Orestes Augustus Brownson - Everywhere it is yet somewhat vague and inchoate.
— from What the Schools Teach and Might Teach by John Franklin Bobbitt - And perhaps, too, he went back to solitude to carry out some great work that was floating inchoate in his brain.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac - Presently, out of the roar and rush of inchoate emotions, three thoughts began to dominate me.
— from A Dash for a Throne by Arthur W. Marchmont
