Ascendancy

Origin

From ascendant + -cy

Alternative forms

• ascendency

Noun

1. The process or period of one's ascent''This was a key moment in Caesar's ascendancy.
2. Supremacy; superiority; dominant control; the quality of being in the ascendant
• 2011, January 15, Phil McNulty, Tottenham 0 - 0 Man Utd, 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. A class of Protestant landowners and professionals that dominated political and social life in Ireland up to the early 20th century
• B. Yeats belonged not to the ascendancy class but to the protestant bourgeoisie. – Terry Eagleton, New Left Review, 1975

Derived terms

• ascendance

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