Ascendancy vs Ascendence - What's the difference?
ascendancy | ascendence |
The process or period of one's ascent
Supremacy; superiority; dominant control; the quality of being in the ascendant
* {{quote-news
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A class of Protestant landowners and professionals that dominated political and social life in Ireland up to the early 20th century
* [W. B. Yeats] belonged not to the ascendancy class but to the protestant bourgeoisie.'' – Terry Eagleton, ''New Left Review , 1975
As nouns the difference between ascendancy and ascendence
is that ascendancy is the process or period of one's ascent while ascendence is alternative form of lang=en.ascendancy
English
(wikipedia ascendancy)Alternative forms
* ascendencyNoun
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