What does the word ascendancy mean?
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Part of speech: noun
Usage examples for ascendancy
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Adonijah had obtained the ascendancy, both in respect of actual possession, and the inclinations and consent of the majority of the nation; the consent was general; 1 Kings, i, 5, 7, 9, 11, 18, 25, and ii, 15. He had all to plead for himself, which Seceders make essential to the constitution of a lawful king. – Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive by The Reformed Presbytery
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It was the Russian menace to India and Persia on the one hand, and the German ascendancy on the other, which compelled her to clasp our hands. – The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Theodore Lothrop Stoddard