Noun

(ascendancies)

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