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onset

In grammar, the initial consonant or group of consonants of a word or syllable. Words and syllables beginning with a vowel or vowels have no onset.



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The onset of troops is like the rush of a torrent which will even roll stones along in its course.
I believe, at the moment of my onset, the Stranger had sunk below our Plane, and really found difficulty in rising.
I wandered with that manner, for the next hour or two, all over the place and looked, I have no doubt, as if I were ready for any onset.
 
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