Synonyms for ascendancy
əˈsɛn dən sias·cen·dan·cy

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1. ascendancy

   Synonyms:
   superiority, advantage, mastery, control, influence, supremacy, sway, domination, authority

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1. dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, controlnoun

   the state that exists when one person or group has power over another

   "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her"

   Synonyms:
   controller, laterality, restraint, dominance, ascendance, authorization, mastery, control, say-so, ascendency, control condition, potency, command, authority, ascendence, authorisation

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1. List of paraphrases for "ascendancy":

   ascendant, ancestor, predominance, descent, bottom-up

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1. Milton R. Sapirstein:

   There is nobody as enslaved as the fanatic, the person in whom one impulse, one value, has assumed ascendancy over all others.

2. Tom Ridge:

   Remember back then we thought about al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan and a few other places? well, we've seen al Qaeda metastasize. It is now a global scourge. And you have the ascendancy of ISIL. The combination of those two groups -- their appeal to the lone wolfs and we see them acting in Belgium and in France and in Canada and the United States so the threat factors and the nature of the threats are far more complicated and far more serious today than on September 12, 2001.

3. Friday Barron:

   De Blasio and his progressive ascendancy have essentially hollowed out what was a prosperous and safe city.

4. Thomas Jefferson, letter to Elbridge Gerry, 1799:

   I am for freedom of religion, & against all maneuvres to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another.

5. Jim Antos:

   If this change is approved, it could signal that UK and U.S. regulators are comfortable with the renewed ascendancy of investment banking.