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Significados de ascendent em inglês

português
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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            Most powerful or important or influential.

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                  Uso de ascendent em inglês
                  1
                  The chief of the ascendent political party was the real ruler.
                  Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10: European Leaders
                  2
                  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
                  3
                  But at this Abe's prudence deserted him, and righteous wrath rose to the ascendent.
                  The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete
                  4
                  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...
                  5
                  Hence his oft varying moods, as the one or the other part of him became ascendent.
                  The Crown of Life
                  6
                  The utterance of the Carnegie Institution indeed fell flat, and Cosmo Versál's star reigned in the ascendent.
                  The Second Deluge
                  7
                  Under Cyrus they became the ascendent power in Asia, and maintained their ascendency until their conquest by Alexander.
                  Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04: Imperial Antiquity
                  8
                  The family spent several hundred pages declining in Lübeck, but Helmut Schmidt spent 96 years in the ascendent.
                  The Irish Times
                  9
                  Do so with the spinners and Australia might well be in the ascendent -he is that influential.
                  The Guardian
                  10
                  The curate continues a very solid innings in the country; but in town the political lover is in the ascendent.
                  Celibates
                  11
                  At one time his star was in the ascendent, and he seemed to be on the highroad to the Presidency.
                  Something of Men I Have Known / With Some Papers of a General Na...
                  12
                  This principle worked well so long as the faith was in the ascendent but its effect was disastrous when decline began.
                  Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2
                  13
                  No wonder the Democratic party spilt wide open-transformed from an ascendent sun into a bifurcated Biela's comet, wandering the Lord knows whither.
                  The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 12
                  14
                  It was one of those "decisive battles" that made Prussia the ascendent power in Germany, and destroyed the prestige of Austria.
                  Beacon Lights of History, Volume 10: European Leaders
                  15
                  He loved office dearly, and hence he did not yield gracefully to the triumph of the ascendent party, which grew stronger every day.
                  Beacon Lights of History, Volume 11: American Founders
                  16
                  From then on, she was steadily in the ascendent, not only in John Galbraith's good graces, which was all of course that mattered.
                  The Real Adventure
                  Sobre este termo
                  Translations for ascendent
                  Ascendent ao longo do tempo