Ascendancy vs Authority - What's the difference?
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The process or period of one's ascent
Supremacy; superiority; dominant control; the quality of being in the ascendant
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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
(label) The power to enforce rules or give orders.
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(label) Persons in command; specifically, government.
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* 1930 September 18, Albert Einstein, as quoted in Albert Einstein: Creator and Rebel (1988) by Banesh Hoffman
As nouns the difference between ascendancy and authority
is that ascendancy is the process or period of one's ascent while authority is the power to enforce rules or give orders.ascendancy
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(wikipedia ascendancy)Alternative forms
* ascendencyNoun
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Derived terms
* ascendanceAnagrams
*authority
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Alternative forms
* authourity (obsolete)Noun
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- To punish me for my contempt of authority', Fate has made me an ' authority myself.