Ascendant vs Noble - What's the difference?
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Rising, moving upward.
* Browne
Surpassing or controlling.
* South
* John Stuart Mill
Being in control; superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency.
* Robertson
An ancestor (antonym of descendant)
Ascent; height; elevation.
* Temple
(astrology) The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment of one's birth; supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's life and fortune.
An aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood.
* 1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Courte :
* 1644 , (John Milton), Aeropagitica :
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 93:
Having honorable qualities; having moral eminence and freedom from anything petty, mean or dubious in conduct and character.
Grand; stately; magnificent; splendid.
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, title= Of exalted rank; of or relating to the nobility; distinguished from the masses by birth, station, or title; highborn.
Ascendant is a related term of noble.
As an adjective ascendant
is rising, moving upward.As a noun ascendant
is being in control; superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency.As a proper noun noble is
.ascendant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The constellation about that time ascendant .
- An ascendant spirit over him.
- The ascendant community obtained a surplus of wealth.
Noun
(wikipedia ascendant) (en noun)- One man has the ascendant over another.
- Chievres had acquired over the mind of the young monarch the ascendant not only of a tutor, but of a parent.
- (Ayliffe)
- Sciences that were then in their highest ascendant .
- (Burke)
noble
English
(wikipedia noble)Noun
(en noun)- This country house was occupied by nobles in the 16th century.
- I lyked no thynge his playe, / For yf I had not quyckely fledde the touche, / He had plucte oute the nobles of my pouche.
- And who shall then stick closest to ye, and excite others? not he who takes up armes for cote and conduct, and his four nobles of Danegelt.
- There, before the high altar, as the choir's voices soared upwards to the blue, star-flecked ceiling, Henry knelt and made his offering of a ‘noble in gold’, 6s 8d.
Antonyms
* commoner * plebeianHyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* half-noble * noble gasAdjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}