OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 29068

commencement

/kəˈmɛnsmənt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
comenzamiento • comienzo • incoación • inicio
The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; the beginning.
The time of Henry VII nearly coincides with the commencement of what is termed modern history.
Yet from the commencement of mining there have been unnoble proprietors of mines, who belonged to the class of merchants.
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