Noun
ascendancy
- The process or period of one's ascent
- This was a key moment in Caesar's ascendancy.
- Supremacy; dominant control; the quality of being in the ascendant
- Synonyms: superiority
- (historical, Ireland) A class of Protestant landowners and professionals that dominated political and social life in Ireland up to the early 20th century
- 1975, Terry Eagleton, New Left Review:
- [W. B. Yeats] belonged not to the ascendancy class but to the protestant bourgeoisie.
- 1975, Terry Eagleton, New Left Review:
- German: Aufstieg (with temporal preposition)
- Portuguese: ascendência
- French: ascendant
- German: Vormacht, Vormachtstellung, Einfluss, Vorherrschaft, Überlegenheit
- Italian: influsso
- Portuguese: ascendência
- Russian: госпо́дство
- Spanish: ascendiente, predominio, influencia, ascendencia
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