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Ascendent   Listen
adjective
ascendent  adj.  
1.
Tending or directed upward.
Synonyms: ascendant, ascensive. "rooted and ascendant strength like that of foliage."
2.
Having the most important influence.
Synonyms: ascendant, dominating, prestigious.





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"Ascendent" Quotes from Famous Books



... deeply depressed for only a short time after the immediate cause of her mood ceased to be active. An hour after Joshua had revealed himself in thunder and lightning, and had gone, she was almost serene again, her hopefulness of healthy youth and her sense of humor in the ascendent. Their stay in the woods was drawing to an end. Soon they would be off for Lenox, for her Uncle Dan's, where there would be many people about and small, perhaps no, opportunity for direct and quick action and result. She reviewed her conduct and felt that she had no reason to reproach ...
— The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig • David Graham Phillips


Words linked to "Ascendent" :   control, ascendant, ascendance, forebear, ancestor, antecedent, ascend, ascensive, forefather, ascendence, dominating, dominance, father, dominant, foremother, progenitor, ascendency, relative, sire, forbear, ascending, descendant, primogenitor, ascendancy, root, relation


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