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The state that exists when one person or group has power over another
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ascendance
Word definitions for ascendance in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ascendancy \As*cend"an*cy\, Ascendance \As*cend"ance\, n. Same as Ascendency .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Ascendance is the first novel in the second DemonWars Saga trilogy by R. A. Salvatore . The book is also the fifth out of seven books in the combined DemonWars Saga .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her" [syn: dominance , ascendence , ascendancy , ascendency , control ]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1742, from ascend + -ance . Properly "the act of ascending," but used from the start in English as a synonym of ascendancy .
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. ascendancy; superiority. n. ascendancy; superiority.
Usage examples of ascendance.
Europe asserted their usual ascendance over the effeminate natives of Asia.
Noetic philosophic and psychiatric integration of their memory paths and thought chains, were recorded as full members of the Rhadamanthine mind structure, granted communion and ascendance.
The exploitability of the case intersected with the ascendance of tabloid television and created a phenomenon of great magnitude, and to censor it or attempt to curtail it in any manner would be unconscionable.
Another of Marie Laveau's predecessors was the queen called Sanite Dede, who was influential from the time of the Louisiana Purchase until Laveau's ascendance in the 1820s and '30s.