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The term "inaugurate" has been employed by various authors to signal the ceremonial beginning or introduction of significant ventures. In some texts, it carries a weighty, almost revolutionary connotation—as seen in Du Bois’s call for a great crusade on the Dark Continent [1] or Herzl's assertion about the pioneers of a new movement [2]. In other works, the word is used more literally, marking the commencement of tangible innovations or events: Verne and Hardy use it to denote the start of novel locomotion and ambitious engineering projects, respectively [3, 4], while Joyce applies it both to beginning a course of vocal instruction [5] and to inaugurating a marketplace [6]. Even in contexts such as Whitman’s introduction of international poems [7] and Wagner’s festive entry into the musical world [8], the sense of initiation is central, highlighting the diverse and dynamic ways the term has enriched literary expression.
  1. We can, if we will, inaugurate on the Dark Continent a last great crusade for humanity.
    — from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. Du Bois
  2. Those who are the first to inaugurate this movement will scarcely live to see its glorious close.
    — from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl
  3. We now had to inaugurate a new kind of locomotion, which would have the advantage of being rapid and not fatiguing.
    — from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
  4. A Royal Personage was about to pass through the borough on his course further west, to inaugurate an immense engineering work out that way.
    — from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
  5. To inaugurate a course of vocal instruction, place the residence of the instructress.
    — from Ulysses by James Joyce
  6. The viceroy, on his way to inaugurate the Mirus bazaar in aid of funds for Mercer’s hospital, drove with his following towards Lower Mount street.
    — from Ulysses by James Joyce
  7. I would inaugurate from America, for this purpose, new formulas—international poems.
    — from Complete Prose Works by Walt Whitman
  8. I made use of this opportunity to inaugurate, as it were, my entree into the musical world in a festive manner.
    — from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

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