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ASCENDANCY

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• ASCENDANCY (noun)
The noun ASCENDANCY has 1 sense:

1. the state that exists when one person or group has power over another

Familiarity information: ASCENDANCY used as a noun is very rare.

• ASCENDANCY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The state that exists when one person or group has power over another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

ascendance; ascendancy; ascendence; ascendency; dominance; control

Context example:

her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her

Hypernyms ("ascendancy" is a kind of...):

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ascendancy"):

ascendant; ascendent (position or state of being dominant or in control)

domination; mastery; supremacy (power to dominate or defeat)

predominance; predomination; prepotency (the state of being predominant over others)

dominion; rule (dominance or power through legal authority)

regulation (the state of being controlled or governed)

absolutism; despotism; tyranny (dominance through threat of punishment and violence)

monopoly (exclusive control or possession of something)

"All flowers are not in one garland."
(English proverb)
"It is easy to cut the tail of a dead wolf."
(Albanian proverb)
"They kill the peacock for the beauty of its feathers."
(Arabic proverb)
"Where there is smoke, there is fire too."
(Croatian proverb)

Useful links:
Pronunciation of domination
Meaning of predominance
Pronunciation of rule
Meaning of regulation
Pronunciation of tyranny

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