Antonyms 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

How to use ascendancy in a sentence?

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. John Stuart Mill:

   As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.

3. 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.

4. John C. Calhoun:

   To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system must depend; unless that ascendancy can be preserved, the necessary consequence must be that the laws will supersede the Constitution; and, finally, the will of the Executive, by influence of its patronage, will supersede the laws ...

5. Friday Barron:

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

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