ascendancy

English

Alternative forms

• ascendency

Etymology

ascend +‎ -ancy or ascendant +‎ -cy

Noun

ascendancy (countable and uncountable, plural ascendancies)

1. The process or period of one's ascent

   This was a key moment in Caesar's ascendancy.

2. Supremacy; dominant control; the quality of being in the ascendant

   Synonym: superiority

   • 2011 January 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 0 - 0 Man Utd”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     Spurs ended the half in the ascendancy and Van der Vaart was again inches away from giving them the lead when he met Bale's cross but his header flew wide.

3. (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.

Derived terms

• ascendance

Related terms

• ascendant

Translations

period or process of ascent

• German: Aufstieg (de) m (with temporal preposition)
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• Interlingue:
• Portuguese: ascendência (pt) f

supremacy; superiority; dominant control

• Azerbaijani: nüfuz (az), zabitə (az)
• Bulgarian: надмощие (bg) (nadmoštie), господство (bg) (gospodstvo)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 優勢／优势 (zh) (yōushì), 优势 (zh) (yōushì)

• Czech: nadvláda (cs) f, převaha f
• Dutch: overwicht (nl), overhand (nl)
• Estonian: ülevõim
• Finnish: valta-asema (fi)
• French: ascendant (fr) m
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• German: Vormacht (de) f, Vormachtstellung (de) f, Einfluss (de) m, Vorherrschaft (de) f, Überlegenheit (de) f
• Hungarian: hatalom (hu), tekintély (hu), uralom (hu)
• Interlingue:
• Italian: influsso (it) m
• Japanese: 優位 (ja) (ゆうい, yūi), 優勢 (ja) (ゆうせい, yūsei)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: ascendência (pt) f
• Romanian: superioritate (ro) f, supremație (ro) f, ascendență (ro) f
• Russian: госпо́дство (ru) n (gospódstvo), власть (ru) f (vlastʹ), превосхо́дство (ru) n (prevosxódstvo)
• Spanish: ascendiente (es) m, predominio (es) m, influencia (es) f, ascendencia f

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