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Ascendency vs Ascendancy - What's the difference?

ascendency | ascendancy | Alternative forms |

Ascendancy is a related term of ascendency.

Ascendancy is a alternative form of ascendency.



As nouns the difference between ascendency and ascendancy

is that ascendency is an alternative spelling of lang=en while ascendancy is the process or period of one's ascent.

ascendency

English

(wikipedia ascendency)

Noun

(ascendencies)

    • ascendancy

    English

    (wikipedia ascendancy)

    Alternative forms

    * ascendency

    Noun

    (ascendancies)
  • The process or period of one's ascent
  • Supremacy; superiority; dominant control; the quality of being in the ascendant
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=January 15 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Tottenham 0 - 0 Man Utd , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=Spurs ended the half in the ascendancy and Van der Vaart was again inches away from giving them the lead when he met Bale's cross but his header flew wide.}}
  • 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

    • Derived terms

    * ascendance

    Related terms

    * ascendant

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