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noun

ascendent n.

1.

Position or state of being dominant or in control. "That idea was in the ascendant".

Synonyms: ascendant.

2.

Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote that a grandparent).

Synonyms: ancestor, ascendant, antecedent.

adjective

Ascendent, Ascendant adj.

1.

Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon. "The constellation... about that time ascendant."

2.

Rising; ascending.

3.

Superior; surpassing; ruling. "An ascendant spirit over him." "The ascendant community obtained a surplus of wealth." "Without some power of persuading or confuting, of defending himself against accusations,... no man could possibly hold an ascendent position."

ascendent adj.

1.

Tending or directed upward.

Synonyms: ascendant, ascensive. "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage."

2.

Having the most important influence.

Synonyms: ascendant, dominating, prestigious.

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Etymology of 'Ascendent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ascendent" Quotes from Famous Books

... all in vain, Dr. Lively offered his forlorn hope, his one greenback, to procure the transportation of his goods across the river. But that five-dollar bill was so scorned and snubbed by the ascendent truckmen that the doctor found himself smiling at his conceit that the poor, despised thing, when returned to his purse, went sneakingly into the farthest ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 • Various

... The seeming fabled story of early chivalry, in them renewed, Shines out to-day with an ascendent glory Above that field of ...

— Purgatory • Mary Anne Madden Sadlier

... management. In her daughter Mary's reign, she followed the same course. He had a hand in Henry Stuart's death, and was afterward one of the conspirators of the the death of the good regent the earl of Murray; but the reformed getting the ascendent, he was obliged to flee to the castle of Dumbarton, and was there taken, when it was taken by the regent earl of Marr, and for his former misdemeanours, was hanged up by the neck like a dog at Stirling, about ...

— Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) • John Howie

... difference is well measured by the difference in force, beauty, significance and usefulness, between [165] primitive Christianity and Protestantism. Eighteen hundred years ago it was altogether the hour of Hebraism; primitive Christianity was legitimately and truly the ascendent force in the world at that time, and the way of mankind's progress lay through its full development. Another hour in man's development began in the fifteenth century, and the main road of his progress then lay for a time through Hellenism. ...

— Culture and Anarchy • Matthew Arnold

... discouragement existed together with the intellect which ever tends to discourage, with the mind which probes appearances, makes war upon illusions. Hence his oft varying moods, as the one or the other part of him became ascendent. Hence his fervours of idealism, and the habit of destructive criticism which seemed inconsistent with them. Hence his ardent ambitions, and his appearance of plodding mediocrity in ...

— The Crown of Life • George Gissing

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