Hypertext Webster Gateway: "ascendency"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Ascendency \As*cend"en*cy\, n.
Governing or controlling influence; domination; power.
An undisputed ascendency. --Macaulay.
Custom has an ascendency over the understanding.
--Watts.
Syn: Control; authority; influence; sway; dominion;
prevalence; domination.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
ascendency
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}, {ascendance}, {ascendence}, {ascendancy},
{control}]
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