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Ascendent

noun
1.
Position or state of being dominant or in control.  Synonym: ascendant.
2.
Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent).  Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, root.





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... 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


Words linked to "Ascendent" :   sire, ascendency, ancestress, relative, forbear, dominance, forefather, dominant, ascendence, primogenitor, ascending, foremother, relation, descendant, father, ascend, progenitor, ascendancy, ascendance, control, forebear


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