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Meanings of ascensive in inglês

Tending or directed upward.

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        Examples for "ascendant"
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        Thus the Centre Party is in the ascendant in the Rhenish Provinces.
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        For centuries the building forces in western civilization were in the ascendant.
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        But the star of the junior dayroom was not in the ascendant.
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        China, on the other hand, was described as economically and militarily ascendant.
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        5
        The military party was in the ascendant, and did as it chose.
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        The chief of the ascendent political party was the real ruler.
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        Outside of his official duties his passion for work again gained the ascendent.
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        But at this Abe's prudence deserted him, and righteous wrath rose to the ascendent.
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        But the people were for the moment in the ascendent, and Bacon should not be sacrificed.
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        Hence his oft varying moods, as the one or the other part of him became ascendent.
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        Usage of ascensive in inglês
        1
        The simple trial proved a complete success, due, as it appeared to them, to the ascensive power of a cloud of smoke.
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        2
        Grace in the heart is an ascensive power, ever lifting its desires upward and upward, and so above the temptations of time and earth.
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