Beginning
Be·gin·ning
Beginning
n.
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The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states.
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
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That which begins or originates something; the first cause; origin; source.
I am . . . the beginning and the ending.
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That which is begun; a rudiment or element.
Mighty things from small beginnings grow.
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