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Significados de ascendant em inglês

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ancestral
catalão
avantpassat
espanhol
ascendente

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

ancestral

Tending or directed upward.

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Examples for "root"
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Onetti said that concept has been slower to take root in Europe.
Reuters
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From the 18th century however, a national Romantic movement had taken root.
Radio NZ
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New polices ordered by Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis have taken root.
Ebony
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Maybe that was the root of their current problems: too much thinking.
The frailty of flesh
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Result: S. miltiorrhiza root of high harvest area accumulated Cu and Zn.
Pubmed
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Clearly, the common genes suggest that the viruses share a common ancestor.
Wired
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The island was also home to a dwarf elephant ancestor, for example.
BBC
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However, in peach ancestor, these syntenic regions were quickly lost or deleted.
Pubmed
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Finally forced to honor his ancestor two thousand years after the fact.
Sign of the cross
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Yes, the portrait of my ancestor that I brought back from France.
Ghosts
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Sometimes it is clearer to introduce the antecedent of the pronoun instead.
An English Grammar
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There is here in the subject no antecedent feeling tending to morality.
The Critique of Practical Reason
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Frequently our brains, our antecedent plans, have no part in the decision.
Young Lives
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Heretics have as direct a relation to antecedent conditions as the orthodox.
On Compromise
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The antecedent grace of God touches man from within or from without.
Light, Life, and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the...

Most powerful or important or influential.

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Uso de ascendant em inglês
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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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Translations for ascendant
Ascendant ao longo do tempo
Ascendant nas variantes da língua
Reino Unido
Comum
Estados Unidos da América
Comum