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Significados de ascendant en inglés

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ascendente

Someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

ascendente

Tending or directed upward.

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Examples for "ascendent"
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The chief of the ascendent political party was the real ruler.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10: European Leaders
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Outside of his official duties his passion for work again gained the ascendent.
The World's Great Men of Music: Story-Lives of Master Musicians
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But at this Abe's prudence deserted him, and righteous wrath rose to the ascendent.
The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete
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But the people were for the moment in the ascendent, and Bacon should not be sacrificed.
Pioneers of the Old South: A Chronicle of English Colonial Begin...
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Hence his oft varying moods, as the one or the other part of him became ascendent.
The Crown of Life
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The simple trial proved a complete success, due, as it appeared to them, to the ascensive power of a cloud of smoke.
The Dominion of the Air: The Story of Aerial Navigation
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Grace in the heart is an ascensive power, ever lifting its desires upward and upward, and so above the temptations of time and earth.
Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader / B...

Most powerful or important or influential.

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Uso de ascendant en inglés
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Thus the Centre Party is in the ascendant in the Rhenish Provinces.
Proportional Representation: A Study in Methods of Election
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For centuries the building forces in western civilization were in the ascendant.
Civilization and Beyond: Learning from History
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But the star of the junior dayroom was not in the ascendant.
The Head of Kay's
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China, on the other hand, was described as economically and militarily ascendant.
Reuters
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The military party was in the ascendant, and did as it chose.
Twenty Years of Balkan Tangle
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Now again the hot fit of his love was in the ascendant.
A Siren
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Then his instinct of fair play in the game took the ascendant.
Blazed Trail Stories, and Stories of the Wild Life
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The positive temper, the attitude of realism, is everywhere in the ascendant.
English Literature: Modern
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The day passed much as usual, only Arnault appeared in the ascendant.
A Young Girl's Wooing
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Dawood said volumes were unexceptional, but positive sentiment was in the ascendant.
Reuters
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They would now see that his star was still in the ascendant.
History of the Conquest of Peru
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My star has not been in the ascendant for a long time.
Greatheart
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His habitual melancholy had assumed the ascendant, and the cloud had returned.
The Tiger Hunter
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The secular authority, long unduly depressed, regained the ascendant with startling rapidity.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
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Compromise looks like weakness to them and they are in the ascendant.
The Irish Times
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And the never resign tradition of Irish politics is in the ascendant.
The Irish Times
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Ascendant a través del tiempo
Ascendant por variante geográfica
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