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Rise to power   /raɪz tu pˈaʊər/   Listen
Rise to power

noun
1.
The act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne).  Synonym: accession.






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"Rise to power" Quotes from Famous Books



... Vanity Fair, has sixty characters, yet each is drawn sharply and clearly, and the whole story moves on with the ease of real life. Consummate art is shown in the painting of Becky's gradual rise to power and the great scene at the climax of her success, when Rawdon Crawley strikes down the Marquis of Steyne, is one of the finest in all fiction. Though Becky knows that this blow shatters her social edifice, she is ...
— Modern English Books of Power • George Hamlin Fitch



Words linked to "Rise to power" :   attainment



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