Synonyms:
initiation, founding, foundation, institution, origination, creation, innovation, introduction, instauration
Meaning: the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new; "she looked forward to her initiation as an adult"; "the foundation of a new scientific society"
Usage examples
About this time also the Phocaeans, while they were founding Marseilles, defeated the Carthaginians in a sea-fight.
I was rejoiced when one of the company inquired, "Where is it?" for I could hardly believe they were founding these remarks upon the evidence of their senses.
As the number of his followers increased, he appears to have cherished the idea of becoming one day a new Mahomet, and of founding, in his native city of Milan, a monarchy and religion of which he should be the king and the prophet.